Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Everybody has a purpose.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

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

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

I was raised to be independent.

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.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

I will not be triumphed over.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

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

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

We are so very ‚umble.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.