I'm keenly aware of how important it is to set a good example. You may not think that your kids are paying attention to you, especially with something like money, but they probably are.

I like the idea of having a paperless society.But to be paperless means you have to be so careful with your identity.

A foreclosure does not define you financially.

Money may not be able to buy you love, but conflicts about it can certainly bankrupt your relationship.

My first piece of career advice is find your gifting. Find the thing that you are skilled at and figure out if you can make a living doing it.

I'm driving my old car until I'm on a first name basis with the low tow truck drivers!

You made a decision given your life circumstances and you have to be ok with that. Regrets that can't be change is just torturing yourself.

You shouldn't invest the money if you are looking to use it within five years. Too much risk.

I use a "Debt Dash" approach to paying off debt. I recommend people focus on paying off the debt with the lowest balance first. So if the primary has less debt you would focus on that.

Priorities lead to prosperity.

The sad thing is many people learn how to manage money after they've made a lot of financial mistakes, some that take decades to fix.

Break the teacher certification monopoly so anyone with something valuable to teach can teach it. Nothing is more important than this.

The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.

It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's no need to talk about work.

Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.

Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

Don't be interesting - be interested.

On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.