I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

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

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

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.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

As you think, so shall you become.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Before all else, be armed.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

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

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

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.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

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.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

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

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.