...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.

A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered.

I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.