Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn’t move to New York to make a fortune.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

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.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‚If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.‘

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

I need physics more than friends.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

I used to make little movies when I was younger. I’d make my friends be in them and then edit them.

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative… you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that’s how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it’s easy to establish a dialogue.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

When I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

I’m not a natural joiner.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro – pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you’re going in your career by the company you keep.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.