There’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
JOHN STEINBECKThere’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.
JOHN STEINBECKNearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
JOHN STEINBECKI wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
JOHN STEINBECKSocialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
JOHN STEINBECKThe free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
JOHN STEINBECKI was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECKPower does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
JOHN STEINBECKIt’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
JOHN STEINBECKAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECKIt’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECKMaybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
JOHN STEINBECKWhen a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
JOHN STEINBECKI 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 be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
JOHN STEINBECKTime is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECKAnd now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
JOHN STEINBECKWhat good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECK