We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.

There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it.

The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.

The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

We will not leave this nation at the mercy of YouTube and Facebook.

My own daughters weren't able to study in Turkey because of their headscarves, so they went to the United States.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

We hide from ourselves by being with others.

The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

Even in Japan, I don't think that the game culture is established. For example, my father will watch movies but games don't appear in his life at all, I think that that's sad.

We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.