Ahmet Necdet Sezner

The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.

We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state's structure.

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

If you're nice, if you like yourself, if you treat other people well, you're going to be successful. I guarantee it.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.