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
Travel Journey Struggle
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. ~John Steinbeck
Marriage Journey Control
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. ~John Steinbeck
Sad Soul Quicker
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession. ~John Steinbeck
Grateful I Am Lion
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~John Steinbeck
I Am Hate Everything
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
Teacher Great Greatest
I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate. ~John Steinbeck
Good Weather Me
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. ~John Steinbeck
Eyes I Am Look
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. ~John Steinbeck
Learn Ideas You
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. ~John Steinbeck
Hurt People Help
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. ~John Steinbeck
Intelligence Man Fish
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
Wisdom Morning Experience
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
Death World Remember
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. ~John Steinbeck
Man Kind Trap
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. ~John Steinbeck
Change Men Wind
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. ~John Steinbeck
Best Man Human
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. ~John Steinbeck
Rain Find Falling
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. ~John Steinbeck
Fear Power Loss
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. ~John Steinbeck
War Team Football
So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda. ~John Steinbeck
Coffee Pride Breakfast