All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world. 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. It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be … Continue reading John Steinbeck