The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

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

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

I’ve never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

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.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

It’s the way I study – to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

Whatever is on the page is what I’m married to. I’m very prepared. I’m a thespian. I don’t like to improv. I don’t like to go off course ‚cause I think that’s where stuff happens. When you stick to the material ‚cause it’s written so well, that’s where the magic happens.

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

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

A man’s character is his fate.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.