Martin Svoboda

“I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.”

Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist

“If I want a long boring story with no point to it, I have my life.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

“If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

“No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors.”

John Holt book Escape from Childhood

“The hardware of a computer is useless without the right software. Similarly, in an organization the hardware (strategy and structure) is inert without the software (beliefs and behaviors).”

Larry Bossidy (1935) American businessman

“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”

William Golding book Lord of the Flies

“There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

“You better live every day like your last because one day you're going to be right.”

Ray Charles (1930–2004) American musician

“I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game. I'm going to change the way people approach fighting.”

Conor McGregor (1988) Irish mixed martial artist and boxer

“We are the hero of our own story.”

Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) American writer

“Art is my life and my life is art.”

Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist

“Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.”

Dean Acheson (1893–1971) Statesman and lawyer

“No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.”

Dean Acheson (1893–1971) Statesman and lawyer