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.

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.

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

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

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.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable

Religion can only do two things for mankind turn them into monster or stupid.

Irony of life – GOD will always make you do things which you never want to.

I make the most of all that comes And the least of all that goes.

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

Name 12 players better than me.

God uses us to impact others.

My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.

I can't memorize names and shake hands at the same time.