Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

I think I’ve got wiser.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

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.

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

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

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

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the ‚Boston Phoenix,‘ and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that’s where I first saw ‚deadpan.‘

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

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.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

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.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

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

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.