Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.

The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?

Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.