It is easier to be critical than correct.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

I’m not a bad person.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

History should be written as philosophy.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

I’m not very articulate.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

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 like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Choose people who lift you up.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Competition is a sin.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.