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

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Pearl S. Buck

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

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

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Pearl S. Buck

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

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

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

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Pearl S. Buck