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

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

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

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Pearl S. Buck

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

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl S. Buck

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl S. Buck

Hunger makes a thief of any man.
Pearl S. Buck

I am mentally bifocal.
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


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

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

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Pearl S. Buck

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.
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.
Pearl S. Buck

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.
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

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

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

Love alone could waken love.
Pearl S. Buck