Quotes By Ben Stein

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

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.

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

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.

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

I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.

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.

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

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

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

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.

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

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

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.

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

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.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

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

Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.

When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?

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

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

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 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.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

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

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

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