Garry Shandling

"Solitude is what you get when nobody wants to talk to you about yourself."

"I think the problem with most advice is that people give it with such confidence."

"Freedom is wonderful until you realize nobody's forcing you to do anything."

"Peace is just a temporary ceasefire between disappointments."

"Nature is beautiful in the same way that a divorce lawyer is beautiful."

"Music is the only thing that makes sense when words have failed."

"Faith is believing in something you can't prove, which is what I do every morning in the mirror."

"Leadership is the ability to make other people believe your bad ideas are actually good ones."

"Work is what you do to avoid thinking about your actual problems."

"Dreams are just your brain's way of telling you that you're asleep."

"Beauty is subjective, which is why I've never been concerned about it."

"Death is the only thing that makes life actually mean something."

"Perseverance is just another word for refusing to give up when you should probably quit."

"Gratitude is remembering that things could always be worse."

"Creativity is intelligence having fun, and I have a lot of fun."

"Justice is what we call revenge when we win."

"Patience is a virtue I've never had the patience to develop."

"Fear is just your mind trying to keep you safe from embarrassment."

"I've discovered that the best education comes from failure and humiliation."

"Knowledge is just organized mistakes."

"Family is the people you're stuck with no matter what stupid things you do."

"Hope is what keeps you going when logic suggests you should stop."

"I think we all just need permission to be ourselves, which I'm giving you right now."

"The irony of being a comedian is that you're constantly lying to tell the truth."

"I learned that ego is just insecurity with better marketing."

"Success in comedy is knowing that people love you because of your flaws, not despite them."

"The real tragedy is that we spend our lives trying to impress people we don't even like."

"I think happiness is just the absence of constantly comparing yourself to others."

"Relationships are just two people agreeing to tolerate each other's weirdness."

"The secret to a good life is doing things badly and being okay with it."