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. – Ben Stein
I dont believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money. – Ben Stein
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. – Ben Stein
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. – Henry David Thoreau