Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

Must the hunger become anger and the anger fury before anything will be done?

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.

Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.