Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

Be not a slave of words.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

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

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

A man’s character is his fate.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

Mine is better than ours.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

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

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

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.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

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

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Never find fault with the absent.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

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

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

I’m afraid to fail again.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘