Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
Ben Stein
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
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.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against.
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.
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.
Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.
Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter came from.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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.'
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.
If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
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.
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.
Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.
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.
We're a lazy, undisciplined generation. I don't exempt myself: I spend way too much, even though I make a good income.
If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons.
I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.
I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple.
I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
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.
It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
