John Oliver

"The worst thing is complacency."

"You can't fix everything by yourself."

"It's important to have values you believe in."

"The thing about America is that it can be better."

"You have to be willing to do the work."

"It's okay to be afraid of what's coming."

"The worst part is the silence."

"If you have the ability to complain, you have the ability to do something about it."

"The key to a great life is having low expectations and being easily impressed."

"America is a country that runs on ignorance and fast food."

"You can't fix stupid, but you can certainly point it out on television."

"The problem with democracy is that it requires effort."

"Everything is terrible and nobody cares, so you might as well laugh."

"Life is not a dress rehearsal - it's more like a live performance where half the cast forgot their lines."

"Success is just failure that hasn't happened yet."

"The truth is like a beautiful woman - it doesn't need makeup."

"Change is inevitable, but so is resistance to it."

"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to pretend to understand complex issues."

"Time is the only thing we can't manufacture more of, so naturally we waste it."

"Freedom sounds great until you realize it comes with responsibility."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, it's the ability to handle it without destroying everything."

"Nature doesn't care about your plans - it just does whatever it wants."

"Art is what makes life worth living, even when it's completely incomprehensible."

"Science is just organized skepticism with better funding."

"Music is the universal language that nobody actually speaks."

"Faith is believing in something without evidence, which is either beautiful or dangerous."

"Leadership is convincing people to follow you even when you have no idea where you're going."

"Work is what we do to afford the things we don't have time to enjoy."

"Dreams are just thoughts having a seizure while you sleep."

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is fortunate because standards are everywhere."