You don't need to waste money on a fancy program or app to do a basic budget. I've been using a simple Excel spreadsheet since 2005 to track my monthly budget.

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.

Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.

I'll do whatever it takes to get you back in my life.

Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

What we do on Sunday absolutely doesn't matter unless it meets us on Monday. Changes us on Monday. Transforms us on Monday.

I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when - but just saying it could even make it happen.

I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.

The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.