One thing I want to make clear: You never want to hide from your debts. It doesn't work.

Buy experiences, not things. Spending on experiences makes people happier than spending on things. Things get broken and go out of style. Experiences get better every time you talk about them.

You can have a do-over starting today. But you have to get over the feeling that it's too late

It's not about having it all. It's about having what you value most.

You'll get much better results by being upfront, answering creditors calls, and responding to their letters. Delaying the inevitable only digs a deeper hole.

By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later.

A little personality goes a long way.

Take the cards out of your wallet. A debit card is accepted just about everywhere that credit cards are, and you'll be spending money you have - always a good thing.

The interest rate you receive, however, is contingent on your credit score.

Rolling all of your debts into a single loan is a good idea - in theory. In fact, it can be a great idea.

No company can promise an end date, but if you have multiple debts, the first one should be settled within a year.

To create new rules, use the power of love, courage, and kindness to break the rules.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

If we could ever find that moment, maybe thousands of years from now, where all the musics of the worlds would be communicating with each other, there would be no more wars, there would be peace.

Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.

He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

If I'm on the titanic I want to be steering.

You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can. I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.

Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.

Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much.