The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“But some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness:… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents… The face and body may be perfect, but if a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers... — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“I’d think there are degrees of greatness,” Adam said. “I don’t think so,” said Samuel. “That would be like saying there is a little… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don’t change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face.”… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too. He found that he had started to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
