Garry Shandling

"The hardest part about anything is starting it, so I try to avoid starting things."

"I believe we're all just making it up as we go along, some of us are just better at hiding it."

"Hope is a dangerous thing, especially when combined with stupidity."

"I think most people are lonely, even when they're surrounded by other people."

"The truth is, we're all just pretending to know what we're doing."

"I've learned that patience is a virtue, but virtue doesn't pay the bills."

"The best relationships are with people who accept your weirdness as normal."

"I think we should stop trying to find ourselves and just accept that we're lost."

"If you're looking for the meaning of life, you're probably overthinking it."

"I believe in kindness, mostly because I'm not very good at aggression."

"The biggest regret people have is not doing more things they didn't want to do."

"I think success is just failure that we've rebranded as acceptable."

"Life would be better if we all just acknowledged how weird it is to be alive."

"I've never met a problem that couldn't be made worse by thinking about it too much."

"The key to good health is worrying about it constantly."

"I think the point of getting older is that eventually you stop caring what people think, then you die."

"Most of us are just one bad day away from admitting we have no idea what we're doing."

"I believe in the power of humor to make everything worse, I mean better."

"The secret to a good marriage is finding someone as confused as you are."

"If I could go back and change anything, I'd probably make the same mistakes again."

"I think the greatest achievement in life is avoiding most of your goals."

"Freedom is just responsibility wearing a different mask."

"I don't do well with compliments. I get very embarrassed."

"The most important thing is the mission, not the person doing it."

"I think people are inherently good. We just get distracted."

"Comedy is about truth. If you're not telling the truth, it's not funny."

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans—but make sure you're present for it."

"The fear of failure keeps us from trying. That's the real tragedy."

"I've learned more from my mistakes than from my successes."

"Real intimacy requires vulnerability, which most people spend their lives avoiding."