We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

I’m not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I’ve always liked the Buddhist religion. When I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

You have to be someone.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

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 always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Be as you wish to seem.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.