Martin Svoboda

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

“You can achieve anything in life. It just depends on how desperate you are to achieve it.”

“Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.”

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

“The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.”

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“Are you running out of breath? Go faster!”

“Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.”

“When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.”

“To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy. We are not enemies. We are Americans.”

“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

“Things are beautiful if you love them.”

“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”

“It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it.”

“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”