If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

Silence is the mother of truth.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

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.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

I do believe in self-help.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.