I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
Source: Accepting Nobel Prize, in Newsweek, 24 Dec 1962.
-- John Steinbeck, (Feb 27 1902-1968), US novelist; He aroused widespread sympathy for the plight of migratory farm workers in The Grapes of Wrath, 1939; won Nobel Prize, 1962.