"When we say no, or when we follow our dreams or true callings - people might be disappointed in our choices. Allowing people their disappointments sets us free."

“Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.”

“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”

“For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.”

Source : Turkish Press Review, June 1, 1999.

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”

“I dream about people who don't need to have sex to know they love each other.”

Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.59, Pan Macmillan

“Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever”

“Women – love each other, support each other, defend each other. It comes at a greater cost to you to attack the women around you than it does to empower them.”

“All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part of that mystery so that the spectator moves on to the next object, making no effort to ponder the meaning of what he has just seen. Everyone thinks that he or she looks but they don't really, you know.”

Source : "The Moore legacy" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2008.