I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Most of the time I don’t have much fun. The rest of the time I don’t have any fun at all.

My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: ‚Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?‘ I said: ‚Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.‘

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

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.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Laughter is America’s most important export.

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.