Martin Svoboda

“Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.”

“A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”

“Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.”

“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”

“I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.”

“The American story is about the slow, yet steady widening of opportunity.”

“I pledge to be a president who doesn't sees the blue states or the red states only sees the United States.”

“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”

“It is wrong to blame anyone for failing to forecast accurately in an unpredictable world. However, it seems fair to blame professionals for believing they can succeed in an impossible task.”

“The first thing a man will do for his ideal is lie”

“At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.”

“Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.”

“I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.”

“Children often ask for things they do not really want.”

“Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”

“Success is getting what you want..
Happiness is wanting what you get.”

“Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?”