If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

No man was ever great by imitation.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

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.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

What we think, we become.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Money does not change people, people change.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

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

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

When I heard ‚Jesus, Take the Wheel,‘ I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you’re a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.