When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.

Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.

A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future.

As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough.

Learning how to face fear really makes you invincible because you stop being scared.

Get up, dress up, and show up.

Start a business plan for yourself, not for anyone else.

A financial plan is a way to take all of the money advice you come across and figure out how it applies to your specific financial situation.

At LearnVest, we're working to make financial planning both accessible and affordable so that everyone has the opportunity to get on track financially.

Money shouldn't be worshiped and it shouldn't be ignored.

You should go to work every day a little bit nervous.

It requires more courage to back down compared to moving forward.

The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it.

The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind

All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.

Keep pace with the times. . . . Find new and surprising ways to teach girls how to develop every gift and grace of true womanhood.

Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.

If somebody tells me I'm famous I say, 'I'm not.' I can't see myself as famous and I don't think I'll ever call myself famous. I definitely don't feel famous. To me, this is just a job.

And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.