People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don't study, empiricize or think rationally myself - but I admire it in others.

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.