Ricky Gervais

"I'm not clever. I just read a lot and remember things."

"Death is nothing to fear. It's what you do before it that matters."

"You don't need religion to be a good person. You just need to be human."

"Ambition without humility is just arrogance with a better business plan."

"The richest person is the one who needs the least."

"I love humanity. It's humans I can't stand."

"Silence isn't golden. It's just the absence of noise."

"You can't buy happiness, but you can buy coffee, which is basically the same thing."

"Every day you don't practice, you're getting worse."

"The truth doesn't care if you like it."

"I'd rather be controversial and honest than popular and fake."

"Fear is just excitement without the breath."

"You can't change other people. You can only change yourself."

"Life is like a box of chocolates: someone else paid for it and now you're fat."

"Nostalgia is just regret with better marketing."

"The secret to success is doing the thing you hate for money."

"Beauty is subjective, which is why I'm single."

"Patience isn't a virtue; it's just poor time management."

"I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual... said nobody who understands the difference."

"Power corrupts. But so does powerlessness, just differently."

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best is now, probably."

"Imagination is what keeps us from being completely depressed about reality."

"You can't out-exercise a bad diet. You can't out-think a bad philosophy."

"History repeats itself because nobody was paying attention the first time."

"Technology won't save us. We'll just use it to be mean faster."

"Leadership isn't about being the smartest. It's about being the least wrong."

"Dreams are nice, but bills are real."

"Adventure is just disaster that happened to someone else."

"Peace is just the period between conflicts where we reload."

"Creativity is just connecting dots other people didn't bother to look at."