"The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us."

“Jesus Christ must be at the heart of every sermon you preach.”

“The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland.”

Source : George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.231, Oxford University Press on Demand

“Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 1, 2011

“What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.”

“Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the world. It's like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.”

“Faith is a gateway to happiness that remains permanently accessible to each of us, wherever we are, no matter our circumstances.”

Source : Mary Lou Retton (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, Broadway

“Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

“The quickest and easiest way to screw up your life is to take on too much debt.”