We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

I think we need more idiot control.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

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 only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

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.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

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 strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.