If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

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

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

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

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

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

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

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

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.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Playing Etta James in the movie ‚Cadillac Records‘ really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It’s no fun being safe.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

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

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

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.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.