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

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

It’s the law, Jack. When the government breaks the law, they have to toe the line.

You do not know what you have and how you are blessed until you have nothing..Count all your blessings.

Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare

Better a bald head than none at all.

‎Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.

As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.

I just throw myself into a mad frenzy, whip up a storm and see what comes through.

That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures.

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

What the matter, Zarek? You afraid to die? (Thanatos) Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard. (Zarek)