While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.

The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.

The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.

When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.

Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.

Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.