Listen to your hunches, pay attention to your intuition, do not dismiss your random thoughts, inspirations or ideas.... They could be giving you the best advice you ever had.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure.

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.

Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

If you don't go within, you go without.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.

We are the products of fate, from beginning to end

Mara Margetić from Slavonski Kobaš stands next to Marija Bursać from Kamenica, or even to Judith the daughter of Merari from Bethulia. What a moving example of love, perseverance and loyalty!

Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It's like getting lost in the darkness and spending the rest of your life trying to find your way.

I certainly don't believe in love at first sight. I definitely believe in a lot of chemistry and lust at first sight. I think that love is something that takes work.

Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working.

I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.

Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?

I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to admire in these clubs. They're just bullshit worlds full of bullshit people.