Actor Alan Alda on Happiness

"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich." —Actor Alan Alda

Giving Like a Hobbit

Thanks to the Hollywood film The Lord of the Rings, a new generation of Americans has been introduced to hobbits. J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional creatures ...

Money Manager's Priorities Shift

During the 13 years Peter Lynch was the manager of the Fidelity Magellan Fund, Magellan was the top-ranked general equity fund. Time called Lynch the ...

Riches Obscure Need of Heaven

For his first sermon in an elementary preaching class, Lawrence, an African student, chose a text describing the joys we'll share when Christ returns ...

Gold Doesn't Save

Lt. George Dixon was a genteel, well-respected man in the Confederate Army. In the early days of the war, his fiancée gave him a $20 gold piece. ...

It's All About Money?

Paul Dinin, an employee of Interland, a web-hosting company in Atlanta, was asked what were his prized possessions in life. Dinin, a high school dropout, ...

Money Irrelevant to Happiness

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.

Giving Wealth Gives Self

Money as a form of power is so intimately related to the possessor that one cannot consistently give money without giving self.

Where Do We Find Contentment?

John Rosemond, a funny nationally syndicated columnist—and also a family psychologist—likes to take unusual informal polls of parents. Whenever ...

The Evil of Idleness

From a sermon on the poor:

"Anyone who would not work should not eat" (2 Thessalonians 3:10). But the laws of Saint Paul are not merely for the ...