I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

I’m not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

I’ve lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.

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 learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

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

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

My mother did not like children.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

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

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

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

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.