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

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

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.

People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.

A cup of wisdom is more valuable than an ocean of intelligence.

God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth.

A Man can Live two Weeks without Food, go two days without Water, and two minutes without Air, and apparently, an entire lifetime without a BRAIN.

There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.

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I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.

Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.

You haven’t changed at all. I expected a perceptible difference, but here you are, red-faced just like always.