Martin Svoboda

“Conflict is an opportunity to become clear about yourself and your values and beliefs and desires. Conflict is the perfect breeding ground for authenticity. Every time a conflict arises, we can see it as an alarm bell that tells us… Here is an opportunity to really know yourself.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“So if you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech. You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.”

Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter

“That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.”

Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter

“You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.”

Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter

“The best advice I’ve ever received is, ‘No one else knows what they’re doing either.’”

Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter

“Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don’t know whether you’re in a trough until you’re climbing out, or on a peak until you’re coming down.”

Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter

“Never confuse your right to say what you believe with a right to never be disagreed with and ridiculed for saying what you believe.”

Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter

“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.”

Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth… Then he said, “Let there be light.” Which means he made the entire universe in the dark!”

Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter

“When I see a headline ‘Guess who’s going out with who?’ I don’t guess, and I don’t click.”

Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter

“Some of you are really smart. You know who you are. Some of you are really thick. Unfortunately, you don’t know who you are.”

Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter

“My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.”

Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones

“I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?”

Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones

“You are enough just as you are.”

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1981) American former actress and member by marriage of the British royal family

“We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.”

Phyllis Diller (1917–2012) American actress and stand-up comedianne

“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.”

Al McGuire (1928–2001) American basketball player and coach

“Pancho was a bandit boys
His horse was fast as polished steel
Wore his gun outside his pants
For all the honest world to feel
Pancho met his match you know
On the deserts down in Mexico
Nobody heard his dying words
That's the way it goes
All the federales say
They could have had him any day
They only let him hang around
Out of kindness I suppose”

Townes Van Zandt (1944–1997) singer-songwriter

“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”

Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker

“You know what capitalism is? Getting fucked!”

Tony Montana