Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that ...

Hope is an orientation of spirit, an orientation of theheart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but thecertainty that something makes sense, regardless ...

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. Thanks to Catherine Doucette -Vaclav Havel.

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a morehumane society will not emerge.