Quotes from Pearl Buck

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

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

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

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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.

Is man all man and is woman all woman? If so, they will never come together, since he lives for his own being and she lives for universal life, and these are opposites.

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

J]e t'ai dressée à te soumettre, de même qu'une fleur subit le soleil et la pluie.

Ton père et le sien, en amis fraternels, jurèrent de s'unir par leurs enfants. Ton fiancé avait alors six ans. Tu naquis dans le cercle de cette année-là. Telle était ta destinée. Tu fus élevée dans ce dessein.

Mnogi ljudi gube male radosti nadaju?i se za veliku sre?u. -

Son égale ! Mais comment ? Ne suis-je pas sa femme ? Quel autre que lui pourrait me diriger ? N'est-il pas mon maître par la loi ?

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

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

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

Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.

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.

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.