Martin Svoboda

“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.”

“Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.”

“Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are the more selective you become.”

“I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you want to make the world a better place”

“If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.”

“Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.”

“The role of a leader is not to come up with all the great ideas. The role of a leader is to create an environment in which great ideas can happen.”

“Prohibition of desire leads to desire for prohibition.”

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one.”

“Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future.”

“The quickest way to happiness learning to be selfless.”

“You might not have been my first love, but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant.”

“Remember, when someone says ‘you’ve changed,’ it usually just means you’ve stopped living your life their way.”

“I like composing music, but I love being with my family.”

“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”

“Economics is just like managing your household.”

“We will stand on principle, or we will not stand at all.”

“If you take the tough decisions, people will hate you today, but they will love you in generations.”