[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.

Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!

The way to find your happiness joy is to make a list of all the things that are fun for YOU to do. Then do some of those things everyday.

When I got to the stadium, one of my biggest things was watching video of hitters.

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.

Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.

I don't know what I believe. I think there's a belief system, I'm just not sure what it is.