That's the way it goes sometimes: in order to help your friends, first you have to help your enemy. Better get used to it.

Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.

An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense.

Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.

Czech beer in bottles is the corpse of real beer in a glass coffin.

We are our own gods and our own demons.