With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

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.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I’m about being the best.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

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.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Learn to think continentally.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Don’t ever play yourself.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Competition is a sin.