Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

We are wiser than we know.

Common Core is a big win for education.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Enemies are so stimulating.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.