Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. John Steinbeck Read Quote
I 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 Steinbeck Read Quote
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck Read Quote
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. John Steinbeck Read Quote
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. John Steinbeck Read Quote
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. John Steinbeck Read Quote
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. John Steinbeck Read Quote