I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

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.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Never regret what you don’t write.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

I’m not a bad person.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.