Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.

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.

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

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.

Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance.            *I abjure advice-giver.

God never ends anything on a negative

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the marketplace.

The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.

I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.

Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I.

What people do for the struggle of power is madness.