Quotes from 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.

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

We must have hope or starve to death.

When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

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

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

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

there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

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.

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

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.

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

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

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.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

Life is stronger than death.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

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

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