"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."

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

"The indispensable 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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"The first step to getting the tings you want out of "life "is this: Decide what you want."

"Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer."

"I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making."

"I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke."

"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."

"Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley."

"When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it."

"I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so."

"I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal."

"I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat."

"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'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."

"It's a great stretch for me to do my game show. It's very hard. It's not me at all. The only part that's me is sort of when I'm sitting in the booth looking tormented. That's the only part that's the real me."

"I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist."

"If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked."

"We're a lazy, undisciplined generation. I don't exempt myself: I spend way too much, even though I make a good income."

"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."

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

"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."

"I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant."

"Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too."

"I tell you why I don't think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don't think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue."

"The education system should teach us about money; it's an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don't have the first clue of what they should do about money."

"As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows."

"It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart."

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