"Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think."

“That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.”

Source : Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.105, Penguin

“Turkish society is divided not only culturally but also politically. You're either conservative or progressive. Islamist or secular. Right wing or left wing. This kind of division can be seen in any society, but in Turkey, the problem is that we are losing any kind of connection between groups and any kind of desire to understand one another. The groups hate each other and they are demolishing all bridges between themselves. So society is divided strictly.”

“To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.”

“It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.”

“The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.”

“Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.”

Source : G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.365, Read Books Ltd

“In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.”

“To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.”