The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. – Ben Stein
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
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 Ive grown older, Ive realized just how smart Knight was. – Ben Stein
The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. – Ben Stein
I love the game, its the greatest game on earth, thats why I cant understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? Thats the beauty of baseball. There is no time element. – Eric Davis