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. – John Steinbeck
A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot. – John Steinbeck
It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. – John Steinbeck
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. – John Steinbeck
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. – Henry Ward Beecher
In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter. – Benjamin Carson