We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

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

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

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.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Peace begins with a smile.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.