The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

I am a religious by the heart, but an atheist by the mind.

Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.

For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.

I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar; I don't get paparazzi around me.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

I shall gather myself into my self again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.