John Steinbeck Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A boy becomes a man when a man is needed

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

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

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

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

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

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

I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To be alive at all is to have scars.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

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

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

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

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