I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

People want you to fail.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

I never fall in love.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

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

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

Vanity is but the surface.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

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.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.