I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.