A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.
John SteinbeckThe trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.
John SteinbeckThere used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.
John SteinbeckPeople need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.
John Steinbeck