Don't ever let anyone tell you that things can't be changed, that things can't be done. The can and they will, if we are united in what we believe.

As people's hopes soared, Jana felt a tinge of fear.

He nodded, looking across the room at the sea of photographers and journalists. The microphones spread around him like birds waiting to be fed.

Mr Martinek turned back to Jana. 'Thirty-eight per cent alcohol, sixty-two per cent fire - all the way from Karlovy Vary.

As the sun lowered into the city's skyline, casting an orange glow over the islands, Jana could feel people's hopes rising.

9 November 1989. A day nobody would forget. She had heard rumours about the wall.

I don't know, Benes. I'm not sure I've ever really understood women for that kind of commitment.' He flipped his beer mat up int the air with his index finger and caught it in his hand.

One word was the method by which the state collected their information. They could reel in the informants and spread them out like tentacles, ready to sting in any direction.

I’d like to have enough time and quietTo think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.

I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.

I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something.

Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence.

The only thing I can see in Jasper Dale's face is helpless and utter confusion.

I think the biggest shift has been in realizing how much more we are creating our life than we realize. That was sort of the epiphany to me.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

The world does not reward average people so I will be extraordinary.