There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

Names are for those who do not know themselves." Makwi - from The Bow of Destiny

Hope is a most beautiful drug.

Great soul, great life.

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

There is not a single person in the national defense apparatus of this country that can guarantee you are going to be 100 percent right. And that's why as president, I'll take this very seriously.

Come little children, I'll take thee away into a Land of Enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play here in my Garden of Magic.

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.