I am not indifferent to the appreciation of kind people. [The voters were] extremely kind in naming me the world's top public intellectual, a title to which I can never see myself as entitled.
Fethullah GulenLovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes Him to be forgotten. Moreover, lovers regard as futile any speech not about the beloved, and any act not related to Him as ingratitude and disloyalty.
Fethullah GulenOnly those who overflow with love will build the happy and enlightened world of the future.
Fethullah GulenA small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years.
Fethullah Gulen