I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn’t really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn’t until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.

The more you know the less you need to say.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn’t do with anything else, we just have to do it.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

Everybody around me had a Snapchat, and I said I would never get on it. I’m still on Instagram, you know? They convinced me to get Snapchat.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

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

I am just one human being.

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.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Never mistake motion for action.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

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.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

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.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.