More Quotes by John Steinbeck
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.
The human is the only guilty animal.
One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
To be alive at all is to have scars.
