“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.”

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.

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

Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism .

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

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

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

Every single line means something.

What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” Piggy paused. “Unless-” Ralph moved restlessly. “Unless what?” “Unless we get frightened of people.

If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.

We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.

An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.