By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time.

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.

"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming".

Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

I don't think there is any global warming. I don't see the statistical data for that.

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.

tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!

At the end, nothing will remain except the poetry of your love.

Chuck Norris knows the last digit of PI.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Nothing can make me madder than lawyers who don't care about others.

Shut up, Axl!" he whispered fiercly. "If you want to break your neck, do it quietly or I'll break it for you.

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly I well know whither, And rest I well know where.

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.