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.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Nothing will work unless you do.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

I never fall in love.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

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

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

My life is my argument.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

I’m not a bad person.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Never complain. Never explain.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

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

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.