Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers]… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I gotta see them folks that's gone out on the road. I got a feelin' I got to see them. They gonna… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I felt so revived in spirit that I put five dollars in the plate, and afterward, in front of the church, shook… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“On the black earth on which the ice plants bloomed, hundreds of black stink bugs crawled. And many of them stuck their… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Her total intellectual association was the Bible, except the talk of Samuel and her children, and to them she did not listen.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Strange things happened to them . . . some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that faith is refired forever.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“...to the race in general, alcohol as been an anodyne, a warmer of the soul, a strengthener of muscle and spirit. It… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“[...] it is a strange thing that most of the feeling we call religious, most of the mystical outcrying which is one… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A new country seems to follow a pattern. First come the openers, strong and brave and rather childlike. They can take care… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique… — 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