When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

Everybody has a purpose.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

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

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There’s no tricks. It’s honesty with big melodies.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I’m so wrapped up in my work that it’s often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.