Although money alone won't make us happy, the lack of money surely will make us miserable.

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.

No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.

You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.

Women need to turn their attention from saving their spouse, their mothers, their this, their that, their kids, to putting that financial oxygen mask on their face first. When they're solid, they can pick up the whole world.

When you can be happy in your sadness as you are in your happiness. Then you know the key to life.