Martin Svoboda

“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.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

“Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.”

John Nash (1928–2015) American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”

Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor

“Economics is just like managing your household.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

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

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

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

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

“Everything you've ever wanted is on other side of fear.”

George Addair

“You’re only as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.”

Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker

“Effort is the oxygen for talent.”

P. L. Deshpande (1919–2000) Marathi writer, humourist, actor, dramatist

“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”

Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

“Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

“All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter.”

Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman