I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

I let the American people down.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

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

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

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’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

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

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

There was a point where I really felt I had ‚penniless divorcee lone parent‘ tattooed on my head.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

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

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

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

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

I’m not a natural joiner.