Pearl S. Buck Quotes
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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.
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Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
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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.
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Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
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An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
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There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
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When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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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.
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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The Chinese novel was written primarily to amuse the common people. And when I say amuse I do not mean only to make them laugh, though laughter is also one of the aims of the Chinese novel. I mean amusement in the sense of absorbing and occupying the whole attention of the mind. I mean enlightening that mind by pictures of life and what that life means.
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
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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.
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.
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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.