I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

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.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

God’s desire is that we excel.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

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.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

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

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

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.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

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

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.