Quotes by John Steinbeck

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

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

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