Quotes By Pearl S. Buck

Love dies only when growth stops.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

Love alone could waken love.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

I am mentally bifocal.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.