"Wherever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’ - I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry n’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the house they build - why, I’ll be there."
– Tom Joad, from John Steinbeck’s novel “The Grapes of Wrath.”
"The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."
"If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it"