Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

I don’t regret anything.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

I’m no genius.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

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.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

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

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

The only way round is through.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let’s get that going.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

I’m not a bad person.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

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

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.