“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I do love her, and that’s odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I don’t know where being a servant came into disrepute. It is the refuge of a philosopher, the food of the lazy,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Our Father who art in nature...must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“First—if you are in love—that’s a good thing—that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, the processes of coordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Abra looked at his sunny hair, tight-curled now, and at the eyes that seemed so near to tears, and she felt the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Yes, I’ll be glad.” And she said suddenly, “There are some times, Joseph, when the love for people is strong and warm… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Tiny emerged on deck some hours later, shaken but smiling. He said that what he had been considering love had turned out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it. — 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 Image
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
