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

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

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.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

I was becoming post-ideological.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

Single life is so overrated.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

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.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.