When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

I think that I’m perfect.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Only the shallow know themselves.

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.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

You should never give up your inner self.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

I can handle pain.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.