"Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness."
— 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

"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

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."
— Pearl S. Buck

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that
without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating."
— Pearl S. Buck

"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail."
— Pearl S. Buck

"One faces the future with one's past."
— Pearl S. Buck

"Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness."
— Pearl S. Buck

"Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought."
— Pearl S. Buck

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off...They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating."
— Pearl S. Buck

"If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being."
— 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

"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends."
— 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

"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

"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

"Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...

- Wang Lung"
— Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth)

"But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?"
— Pearl S. Buck

"The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members"
— Pearl S. Buck

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this:
A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.
To him... a touch is a blow,
a sound is a noise,
a misfortune is a tragedy,
a joy is an ecstasy,
a friend is a lover,
a lover is a god,
and failure is death."
— Pearl S. Buck

"The rich are always afraid."
— Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth)

"Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked."
— 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

"To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
— Pearl S. Buck

"" there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.""
— Pearl S. Buck (Peony)

"He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people."
— Pearl S. Buck (Peony)

"If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. "
— Pearl S. Buck

"To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future."
— Pearl S. Buck

"Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?"
— Pearl S. Buck

"Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever the dream might be."
— Pearl S. Buck (The Patriot)

"I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody."
— Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth)

"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 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

"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

"All things are possible until they are proven impossible."
— 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

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this:

A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

To him... a touch is a blow,
a sound is a noise,
a misfortune is a tragedy,
a joy is an ecstasy,
a friend is a lover,
a lover is a god,
and failure is death.

Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - - - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.
"
— Pearl S. Buck

"Life is stronger than death."
— 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

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating."
— Pearl S. Buck

"He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest."
— Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth)