I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

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.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

Be not a slave of words.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

My mother did not like children.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

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.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

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

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

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.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

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

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

I’m no genius.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.