Ben Stein Quotes

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.

And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

Science leads you to killing people.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

It's a lot better to hope than not to.

The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.

Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We're not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it's called Darwinism .

My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.

Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.

For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens and earth - so, for me it's not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.

My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it's a vacation destination for me. I say, 'Because I sometimes have perfect days there.'

The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.

Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.

I am scared of running out of money.

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.