If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President. – Vaclav Havel
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. – Vaclav Havel
Sometimes I wonder if suicides arent in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. – Vaclav Havel
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. – Vaclav Havel
The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne. – Ralph Waldo Emerson