Czech beer in bottles is the corpse of real beer in a glass coffin.

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.

There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory.

Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.

With God, all things are possible.

Good is equal to Order While, Evil is equal to FreedomDoes it make sense to you? It does for me.

The Universe is the creation of the mind. Universe exists inside the mind as the flower exists inside the seed.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

All along, my mantra was: Don't write unless it contributes to the emotion, and do anything you do in service of the emotion only.

Some of us are more concerned with our reputation than our character. The latter takes care of the former.

He frowns. "A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?

Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish.

Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.

If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.