“…The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. Those two elements always go together. … The best we can hope for in life is that it doesn't happen for a long, long time.”

“The time for eating otrach orach is over. But not the hunger, which is always greater than we are.”

“The tragedy of a man is greater when he gives it up.”

“Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.”

“Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.”

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

“The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.”

“It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness.”

“Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower,
We feel that we are greater than we know.”

“When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.”