Quotes By Pearl S. Buck

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.

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

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

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

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.

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.

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

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

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

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.

Love dies only when growth stops.

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

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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

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

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

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.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.