Mehmet Murat ildan

“A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception!”

“If you want to give a message to the world, let it be simple, as simple as the life of a shepherd!”

“If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!”

“If you are a boat and your lake is frozen, what can you do? You will wait for the spring! We are lucky that we are humans, we don’t have to wait for the spring; we can break the ice if necessary, we can use fire to open our way! Nothing can stop the mind if the mind decides to move to his target!”

“Never trust the captain who has never taken any education from the School of Storms!”

“A good strategy of life is obvious: When the right path is found, it must be walked no matter how hard it is and the precious target this path destined to must be arrived at by defeating every difficulty encountered!”

“You can’t clean your dirty past as if you are cleaning a dirty window! All you can do is to create a clean future!”

“How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?”

“It is in fact not our dream that makes us happy, but chasing that dream!”

“If heaven is within you, everywhere you go you will find heaven!”

“The fate of the world depends on the triumph of the good people!”

“Let me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our every look can be our last look! Our every moment can be our last moment! Are we happy about this fragile situation? No! Are we going to deceive ourselves with some childish stories, in other words with religion? No! Then what are we going to do? We will change this desperate situation, we will strike this chaotic universe with human mind, with high intelligence, in short with science! Humanity’s ultimate objective is to reshape this dangerous universe so that no threat will ever remain for our existence!”

“For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!”

“A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!”

“An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!”

“If you have a good light inside you, you will get a good light from outside!”

“Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains!”

“Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion!”

“Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!”

“Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life infinitely precious.”