Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

In twenty years I’ve never had a day when I didn’t have to think about someone else’s needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

Better never than late.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

I don’t do meetings.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.