Today is the birthday of John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968), writer. He is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939).John Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen."
— John Steinbeck
"This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected."
— John Steinbeck
"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."
— John Steinbeck
"People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all."
— John Steinbeck
"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."
— John Steinbeck
"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."
— John Steinbeck
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