Martin Svoboda

“He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”

“Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.”

“There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.”

“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”

“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.”