a soul is far too large to hide.

Tea drinking is a liturgy of comfort, and we partake of it everywhere in the world. It’s a ceremony of simplicity, nourishment for both the nomads in foreign teahouses and homebodies in their beds.

Fear, ignorance, and hatred - these are the trinity of malice.

Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.

Where I am ignorant, Lord, teach me. Where I am wrong, Lord, correct me. Where I am right, Lord, confirm me.

A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.

Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.