You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

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

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

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.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

There are no second acts in American lives.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

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.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘