Hugh Laurie

"The best characters are the ones who don't know they're being watched."

"Politics is the art of making people believe you care."

"War doesn't solve anything. But people keep hoping it will."

"Motivation is overrated. Discipline is what actually works."

"Inspiration is just plagiarism you haven't been caught for yet."

"The problem with relationships is they require actual work."

"I think faith is believing in something even when you can't prove it."

"Beauty fades, but a good personality lasts forever. That's probably why I'm in trouble."

"Nobody wants to die. But everyone's afraid of living."

"Perseverance is just stubbornness that works out in the end."

"Justice isn't always fair. It's just the best we can do."

"I think the worst thing you can do is pretend to be someone you're not."

"Power corrupts, but the lack of power makes you bitter."

"Work should be meaningful, or at least pay well enough to forget it's not."

"Dreams are just thoughts that haven't been thought through yet."

"Humor is how we deal with the fact that everything is terrible."

"Family is the people who know everything about you and love you anyway."

"Hope is deciding that the future might be better than the past."

"Courage isn't the absence of fear. It's being terrified and doing it anyway."

"Change is the only thing that stays constant. But we're still surprised by it."

"Knowledge without wisdom is just a library of useless facts."

"Time is either your best friend or your worst enemy, depending on how you use it."

"Truth is uncomfortable, which is why people prefer comfortable lies."

"Freedom is a responsibility most people aren't ready for."

"Peace is harder to achieve than war. But infinitely more valuable."

"Nature doesn't care about your plans. It just keeps going."

"Every person is a story. Most of them just never get told."

"Science is organized skepticism. Religion is organized belief."

"Music is the closest thing we have to magic."

"Faith without doubt is just certainty pretending to be faith."