Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
– Pearl S. Buck
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
– Pearl S. Buck
Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.
– Pearl S. Buck
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
– Pearl S. Buck
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
– Pearl S. Buck
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
– Pearl S. Buck
I am mentally bifocal.
– Pearl S. Buck
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.
– Pearl S. Buck
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
– Pearl S. Buck
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
– Pearl S. Buck
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.
– Pearl S. Buck
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
– Pearl S. Buck
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
– Pearl S. Buck
Love alone could waken love.
– Pearl S. Buck
Love dies only when growth stops.
– Pearl S. Buck
Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
– Pearl S. Buck
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
– Pearl S. Buck
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
– Pearl S. Buck
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
– Pearl S. Buck
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
– Pearl S. Buck
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
– Pearl S. Buck
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.
– Pearl S. Buck
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
– Pearl S. Buck
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
– Pearl S. Buck
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
– Pearl S. Buck
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.
– Pearl S. Buck
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.
– Pearl S. Buck
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
– Pearl S. Buck
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
– Pearl S. Buck
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
– Pearl S. Buck
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
– Pearl S. Buck
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
– Pearl S. Buck
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
– Pearl S. Buck
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
– Pearl S. Buck
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
– Pearl S. Buck
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
– Pearl S. Buck
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
– Pearl S. Buck
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
– Pearl S. Buck
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
– Pearl S. Buck
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
– Pearl S. Buck
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
– Pearl S. Buck
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
– Pearl S. Buck
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
– Pearl S. Buck
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
– Pearl S. Buck
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
– Pearl S. Buck
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
– Pearl S. Buck
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
– Pearl S. Buck
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
– Pearl S. Buck
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.
– Pearl S. Buck
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
