To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westerners about what the market really means.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time.

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.

"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming".

Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

I don't think there is any global warming. I don't see the statistical data for that.

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.

I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

If it can bleed, we can kill it.

I was always taught my do's and don'ts: For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give.

Even if humans feel lots of fear, remember God will take care of you. This is a collective message because fear is contagious... This is a message of reassurance.

I am truly grateful that faith enables me to move past the question of 'Why?'