The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

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

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

I never fall in love.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

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

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

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.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

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

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.