You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.

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

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.

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.

Intention, good or bad, is not enough.

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.