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

Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

The most effective coquetry is innocence.

Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

History teaches everything, even the future.

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

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

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

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

You can go home again...so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.