Success 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... Vaclav Havel 44
Peace Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among... Vaclav Havel 46
Leadership 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... Vaclav Havel 30
Lose As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its... Vaclav Havel 32
Alone The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. Vaclav Havel 34
Chance Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. Vaclav Havel 31
