“Teaching kids about money is never just about money.”

Broke is normal. Why be normal?

A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

If you aren’t really careful, ‘The Good Enough’ can become the enemy of ‘The Best.’

Work is a surefire money-making scheme.

People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird’s eye view and they don’t create a systematic plan.

Debt is normal. Be weird.

You will only sacrifice when you passionately believe in the outcome.

There’s a great place to go when you’re broke–to work!

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.

A good financial planner is going to do more than pick your funds.

Broke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers.

The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned.

All through the depression, I was the soft toy in the hands of a baby with sharp teeth.

Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.

He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.

Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.