At the end of the day, what I cherish most are the human relationships.

If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

I am not given to making sense out of life — or coming up with some grand narrative on it — other than to measure it by what you think you want to do in life.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

-- Elizabeth I of England

Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown, that I have reigned with your loves.

-- Elizabeth I of England

Necessity has no law. But feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cheat that men can play upon the Providence of God.

-- Oliver Cromwell

I am Turkey!

-- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk