Fiction often provides great observations about real life. Here are some quotes from one of my favorite TV shows, Mad Men. Don Draper clearly gets the best lines.

1. 12 of My Favorite MADMEN Quotes

2. I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie, there is no system, the universe is indifferent. Don Draper

3. Fear stimulates my imagination. Don Draper

4. I said congratulations, didn't I? Although, sometimes when people get what they want they realize how limited their goals were. Joan Holloway

5. Advertising is based on one thing, happiness. And you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It's freedom from fear. It's a billboard on the side of the road that screams reassurance that whatever you are doing is okay. You are okay. Don Draper

6. Pick a job and then become the person that does it. Bobbie Barrett

7. I have a life. And it only goes in one direction. Forward. Don Draper

8. Get out of here and move forward. This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened. Don Draper

9. I don’t understand. I try to do my job. I follow the rules and people hate me. Innocent people get hurt, and, and other people, people who are not good, get to walk around doing anything they want. It’s not fair. Peggy Olson

10. You are the product. You feeling something. That's what sells. Not them. Not sex. They can't do what we do and they hate us for it. Don Draper

11. Adding money and education doesn’t take the rude edge out of people. Pete Campbell

12. I feel like I should make a speech…get back to work. Roger Sterling

13. This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards... it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called the wheel, it's called the carousel. It let's us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved. Don Draper