Martin Svoboda

“Suicidal people have tunnel vision - no other choice seems possible. A counselor’s job is to put windows and doors in that tunnel.”

“The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.”

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is just opinion.”

“Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.”

“You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.”

“It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.”

“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”

“No one can predict the future exactly, but we know two things: it’s going to be different, and it must be rooted in today’s world.”

“How much of what you know about business is shaped by mistaken reactions to past mistakes?”

“Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.”

“I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am.”

“If you want to master something, teach it. Teaching is a powerful tool for learning.”

“Don´t expect to find any success stories in human bodies.”

“I’m not particularly interested in collecting things, but there’s one sort of running motif in my life: despite my basic indifference, objects just seem to collect around me, of their own volition.”

“When we live an undisciplined life, we constantly sabotage ourselves.”

“The reason that angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly.”

“The man who loses the path in the morning, if he returns home by the evening he should not be called lost.”

“What is the object of defense? To preserve. To preserve is easier than to acquire.”

“Every suspension of offensive action, either from erroneous views, from fear or from indolence, is in favor of the side acting defensively.”