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

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Let’s embrace being not normal!

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

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

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

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.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

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.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

I give opinions, not advice.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

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

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

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.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.