"When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world-try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. But life-that’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact. And that is everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it-you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use."

"The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions."

"Get more aggressive with the shit you want in life. Stop playing shit safe and being so soft."

Anywhere can be paradise as long as you have the will to live.
After all, you are alive, so you will always have the chance to be happy.
As long as the Sun, Moon, and the Earth exist, everything will be alright.

"It doesn't matter who you are at any other point in time but here and now."

"there is still time"

Inhabiting the character of a carefully calculated societal average is a sign of deep personal insecurity

If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things – praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts – not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.

You haven't actually forgiven [anyone].
But a world in which no one is forgiven..
Such a world is hell.
And you're living in hell, Ludvík.