There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.

Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.

I am a highly disciplined person. I get up at seven every morning and, still in my pajamas, sit down at my desk where my checkered ring binders and my fountain pen are ready for use. I try to write two pages every day.

Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.