John Steinbeck

"If it is right, it happens. The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."

- John Steinbeck

"What good is the warm of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

- John Steinbeck

"What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?"

- John Steinbeck

"If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones."

- John Steinbeck

"Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold."

- John Steinbeck

"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."

- John Steinbeck

"A journey is like a marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."

- John Steinbeck

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."

- John Steinbeck

"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children."

- John Steinbeck

"And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in all the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual."

- John Steinbeck

"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.."

- John Steinbeck

""Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..""

- John Steinbeck

"It arrived in August, a beautiful thing, powerful and yet lithe."

- John Steinbeck

"A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going."

- John Steinbeck

"in August, a beautiful thing, powerful and yet lithe."

- John Steinbeck

"Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other."

- John Steinbeck

"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ."

- John Steinbeck

"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists."

- John Steinbeck

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."

- John Steinbeck

"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."

- John Steinbeck

"When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing."

- John Steinbeck

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

- John Steinbeck

"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike."

- John Steinbeck

"People don’t take trips, trips take people."

- John Steinbeck

"What are you looking for, little man? Is it yourself you’re trying to identify? Are you looking at little things to avoid big things?"

- John Steinbeck

""A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.""

- John Steinbeck

"A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker than a germ."

- John Steinbeck

"A sad soul can be just as lethal as a germ."

- John Steinbeck

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

- John Steinbeck

"A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well — or ill?"

- John Steinbeck

"People don’t take trips; trips take people."

- John Steinbeck

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

- John Steinbeck

"I guess there are never enough books."

- John Steinbeck

"Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

- John Steinbeck

""I guess there are never enough books.""

- John Steinbeck

"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

- John Steinbeck

"All great and precious things are lonely."

- John Steinbeck

"It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone."

- John Steinbeck

"The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain."

- John Steinbeck

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

- John Steinbeck

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

- John Steinbeck

"Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Goodbye is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future."

- John Steinbeck

"Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-bye is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future."

- John Steinbeck

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

- John Steinbeck

"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."

- John Steinbeck

"In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different."

- John Steinbeck

"In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different."

- John Steinbeck

"In early June, the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different."

- John Steinbeck