I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.

The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer.

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril

Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.

You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.

You can be beautiful and young even as you get older. Keep an active life.

No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one's heart better than unconditional self-love.

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Having a trade deficit and a budget deficit, it's two different things.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you.