“It is not all about the certificate,it is your dreamYour dream is what you stand forYour dream is your future.”

“There is no age limit before you succeed”

“Follow your instincts.”

“Don't ever let anyone tell you that things can't be changed, that things can't be done. The can and they will, if we are united in what we believe.”

“9 November 1989. A day nobody would forget. She had heard rumours about the wall.”

“Mr Martinek turned back to Jana. 'Thirty-eight per cent alcohol, sixty-two per cent fire - all the way from Karlovy Vary.”

“The lines in the corners of her eyes spoke of years of wisdom, as a tree with the number of rings increasing with each passing year. She was a small frame of a woman with piercing eyes that suggested that they knew you, understood you even.”