Pearl S. Buck

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

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.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

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

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.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

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.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

One faces the future with one's past.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

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

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.