I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

I’m not a bad person.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

‚The New Yorker‘ was really my first experience with serious editing. Previously, I’d more or less just had copyediting with a few suggestions – not much.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

I love being busy.

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

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

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

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

I might just write a novel next. I don’t know!

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

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

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

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 once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

You fail only if you stop writing.

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

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

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.