“I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.”

We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.

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.

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

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

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.

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

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

I think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.

And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

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

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.

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.

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, ‘Well, how did life begin’ – they’re… they don’t have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it’s a BS answer. It’s an answer that wouldn’t make sense to a small child.

The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.

But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost’s poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the companionship of moon, water, hills and trees. Retreat, he reminds us, should not be confused with escape. And take these poems along for good luck!

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It’s – but it all goes back to ‘Mary Tyler Moore,’ ‘Golden Girls,’ all those – actors love to take the credit. We couldn’t do it without the writers.

Every now and then you have like a realization moment where you get goosebumps and think, “I am literally the luckiest person in the world.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn’t believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But I’m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role. I love being with people.