When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

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‘.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

I was raised to be independent.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

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!

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The people in my songs are all me.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

I’m selfish.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

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.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

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

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

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.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it.

It is important to remember yourself.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.