You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
John SteinbeckThe last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.
John SteinbeckAnd then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.
John SteinbeckStrength 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.
John SteinbeckThe people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.
John SteinbeckThis you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back.
John Steinbeck