How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

Some people would like me to be round again.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

We are wiser than we know.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

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.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

I just want to be myself.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

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

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

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

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

Things do not change; we change.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

I was becoming post-ideological.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.