Quotes By Pearl S. Buck

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

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.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

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

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

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

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

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.

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Love dies only when growth stops.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

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.