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.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

Giving is true having.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

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

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

I can handle pain.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

I have such respect for ‚Democracy Now!‘

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

My life is my message.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

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

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro – pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you’re going in your career by the company you keep.