A good sketch is better than a long speech.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.

There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is another merit that glorifies both man and woman: so much loving the homeland to an extent with being ready to sacrifice his/her life, if needed. Turks are such courageous and virtuous people. That is why you can kill a Turk but you can never defeat them.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.