A biography for Ben Steinhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.”
“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.”
“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.”
“People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.”
“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'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.”
“I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.”
“The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.”
“Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.”
“Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.”
“As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.”
“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.”
“I am scared of running out of money.”
“I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.”
“I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.”
“I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.”
“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.”
“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.”
“So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.”