I get more inspired by seeing everyday people succeed against the odds than anything else in life.

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

One has to ask what is the goal of life? What is the goal of life? My interpretation of it for myself, a very wise teacher once taught me this, is to meet the needs of the people, places and the times around you and offering those services to God.

I get more inspired by seeing everyday people succeed against the odds than anything else in life.

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.

Many people are dreaming. Let me rent. Let me have a job. Let me work until I'm 70. That's not what the American Dream used to be. It used to be, let me own a home. Let me retire at 59 and a half or 65 at the latest. Let me do this. And now, really, given what's happened, good luck with anything happening unless you do it yourself.

If the only way you can build an emergency fund is to pay the minimum due on your credit card, that is what you need to do.