My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

I don’t think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

I let the American people down.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in 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.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

My mom’s one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Everybody has a purpose.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

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.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.