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Learn how to prioritize all your debt. And did you know student loan debt is the most dangerous debt any of us can have?

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

I don't doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong's spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.