Love: It is like a cigar. If it goes out, you can light it again but it never tastes quite the same.

The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.

There is no room in war for delicate machinery.

Skill, education, money aren't the difference makers, passion is. If you've passion to achieve something, there's nothing that can stop you.

To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood in the land of sleep.

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Benefit your friends; make sure your enemies suffer from being your enemies.

The past is only the future with the lights on

The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way, while in America, the majority of movies are wonderful fairy tales.

I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors sign something else? A flyer, perhaps? A special kind of card devised for the purpose?