John Steinbeck Quotes, Thoughts and images

If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

To be alive at all is to have scars.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.

A boy becomes a man when a man is needed

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.