Ricky Gervais

"Art is what you can't explain. That's why critics exist."

"Music is the soundtrack to whatever it is you're fooling yourself about."

"Literature teaches you nothing. But it teaches you everything."

"Politics is religion for people who think they're rational."

"War is what happens when diplomacy runs out of words."

"Motivation is temporary, like bathing. You have to keep doing it."

"Inspiration is just you remembering something interesting."

"Relationships are easy. It's the people in them that are hard."

"Family is an accident of birth. Friends are a choice."

"Love is just a chemical reaction, but so is hatred."

"Friendship is just self-interest with better conversation."

"Hope is believing in something you have no evidence for."

"Courage isn't the absence of fear. It's stupidity mixed with determination."

"Change is inevitable. Improvement is optional."

"Education is just learning what other people got wrong."

"Strength isn't physical. It's pretending you're okay when you're not."

"Gratitude is appreciating things you took for granted."

"Justice is just revenge with better PR."

"Nature doesn't care about your feelings. That's what makes it honest."

"Success is waking up without an alarm clock, broke."

"Wisdom is just experience you learned from instead of repeated."

"Happiness is the absence of wanting more."

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a fatal outcome."

"I'm glad I don't have kids. At least someone will be better off."

"Perseverance is just refusing to accept reality."

"The only certainty is uncertainty."

"If you're not confusing yourself with complexity, you're probably not thinking."

"Loneliness is underrated. It's where you find out who you are."

"Comedy is tragedy plus time, minus taste."

"Ideology is just stupidity with conviction."