There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

It is hard to think differently. To change your world, change your thoughts.

This is one secret in living with the loved one. That is, it doesn't try to change the other party.

That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God.

The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.

There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.

Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.

Tibet is not like Kuwait. Kuwait has oil.

The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

What makes life interesting are the challenges we face.