John Steinbeck

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.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.