“If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.”

No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,–the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.

His saying was: live and let live.

Great souls suffer in silence.

Not he who scorns the Saviour’s yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that’s true, He whom woman’s love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar’s garb, commands respect.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens.

I wrote many poems about her and held her so close to my heart that she did not even knew a place there.

You’ve got to sing from the depths of the heart. Without heart, you cannot be a Qawwal.

There are stars in my heart shining for you.

Silent hearts carrying pain quietly are likely to make thunders cry loud.

I traced the outlines of my heart and dumped out the contents. I laid them all in front of you and watched you walk away.

Do you see how the candle light glows as it performs its life purpose. Let your heart be the candlelight.

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.