The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

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.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

I’m constantly thinking.

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

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

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

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

I woke up one day and thought: ‚I want to write a book about the history of my body.‘ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.