Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

There are no second acts in American lives.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

Money does not change people, people change.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

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.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

My wife is already in Heaven.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

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

God to me is love.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

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

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.