I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Get mad, then get over it.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

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

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

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.

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

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

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.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

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

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

I can be a cruel person.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.