1892-1973, American Novelist
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl S. Buck – [Mistakes]
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl S. Buck – [Growth]
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.
Pearl S. Buck – [Attitude]
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 – [Faith]
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Pearl S. Buck – [Understanding]
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 – [Self-knowledge]
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
Pearl S. Buck – [Nature]
Love alone could waken love.
Pearl S. Buck – [Love]
Love dies only when growth stops.
Pearl S. Buck – [Growth]
Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
Pearl S. Buck – [Debt]
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
Pearl S. Buck – [Slavery]
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 – [Freedom]
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
Pearl S. Buck – [Nationalities and Nationalism]
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 – [Mind]
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Pearl S. Buck – [Age and Aging]
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl S. Buck – [Praise]
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 – [Mothers]
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 – [Husbands]
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 – [Success]
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck – [Youth]