Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

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.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

I actually think people generally have an awareness and feel like, ‚Wow, these networks have a lot of information.‘

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

There are no second acts in American lives.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

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 myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.