Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.
— Ricky Gervais
You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'
Where there's a will - there's a relative!
Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back because all the same tests would be the same result.
People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.
Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.
The grass isn't always greener on the other side!
I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.
Why buy a book when you can join a library.
Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!