Men are only as great as they are kind.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

I don’t care about money.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

Respect the burden.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Money can’t buy life.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

I look after people.

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

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.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.