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“What more delightsome than an infinite varietie of sweet smelling flowers? decking with sundry colours the greene mantle of the Earth, the universall Mother of us all, so by them bespotted, so dyed, that all the world cannot sample them, and wherein it is more fit to admire the Dyer, than imitate his workemanship. Colouring not onely the earth, but decking the ayre, and sweetning every breath and spirit.”
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“But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over.”
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“Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.”
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“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”
Source : "Letters to Olga". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1988.
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“We all have to accept accusations that we ignored the refugee crisis for far too long. The first time that I referred to the Mediterranean Sea as Europe's cemetery was in October 2013, when hundreds of people drowned off Lampedusa. Italians, Maltese, Greeks and Spaniards have been pleading for help for years. But nobody cared.”
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“Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I’ve sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.”
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“Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.”
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“Everybody thinks people who promote PETA don't eat meat, but I think animals were made to be eaten.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
