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.”

“Love alone could waken love.”

“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”

“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.”

“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”

“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.”

“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.”

“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.”

“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.”

“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.”

“One faces the future with one's past.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.”