Sesame Street

"Knowledge is fine, I suppose, if it keeps people away from me."

"School teaches you things you don't want to know."

"Change? The only change I want is people leaving me alone."

"Courage is what you need to stay grouchy in a nice world."

"The best time is when nobody's around bothering me."

"Love? That's just a word people use to bother grouches."

"I succeed at being disagreeable every single day."

"Life's too short to be pleasant."

"Don't bother me with your cheerfulness. It's contagious."

"Happiness is overrated. Misery is where it's at."

"Everything would be better if people just minded their own business."

"I don't need friends. I need quiet and solitude."

"Leave me alone and everything will be terrible. Perfect."

"A good grouch appreciates the finer things in life... like crud."

"Why is everyone always trying to make me happy? It's exhausting."

"The more it stinks, the more I like it."

"Scram! Can't you see I'm trying to be miserable here?"

"I love trash. Why do you think I live in a can?"

"Peace requires the same bravery as war."

"Good governance serves all people equally."

"Remember those who came before you."

"Faith is believing when you cannot prove."

"Music speaks when words cannot."

"Beauty exists in every moment if you look."

"Family teaches us who we are."

"Love is a choice you make every day."

"Alone time is not loneliness; it's self-care."

"Relationships grow in honesty and shrink in deception."

"Find what inspires you and pursue it relentlessly."

"You are capable of more than you know."