My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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

I don’t have all the answers.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

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 began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

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

I never make conscious decisions.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

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.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

My life has been very full.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

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.

I really have no interest in myself.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.