You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

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.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.