Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

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.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

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.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

I think that I’m perfect.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Single life is so overrated.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

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

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.