Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

I’m about being the best.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I’m chasing perfection.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

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.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Humble people ask for help.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

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.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.