We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

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

I focus on my own job.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

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

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.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Think and grow rich.

The self is hateful.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Be as you wish to seem.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

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

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.