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

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

I never say I am a guru.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

I’m not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

In ‚Gran Torino,‘ I play a guy who’s racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you’re never too old to learn and embrace people that you don’t understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

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.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.