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.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

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

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

You should never give up your inner self.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.