43 Quotes by Stephen Mitchell

Our survey confirms that if parents wait to start, they run the risk of not saving enough for when their student reaches college age. If parents start saving early and use a tax-deferred plan, like the 529 Plan, they can significantly improve their chances of building the funds they need to pay for their children's college.

As costs for college continue to increase and financial aid continues to shift toward reliance on loans, it is more important than ever for parents to take responsibility in preparing financially for their children's college futures. Whether a child is a year old or entering high school, parents should take a good look at the savings options available and start right away.

The new Roth IRA is a great option for many people but certainly adds a new level of complexity.

It's big because it offers a potential benefit to so many people, ... but many people don't know about it.

Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.

Love softens everything except our sense of integrity.

If you listen to the traffic with a clear mind, without any concepts, it is not noisy, it is only what it is.

In a cookie factory, different cookies are baked in the shape of animals, cars, people, and airplanes. They all have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same dough, and they all taste the same.

What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already present, beyond longing.