I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

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’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

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.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

We are wiser than we know.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

For me, education was power.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.