Pearl S. Buck Quotes (57 Quotes)

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.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

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

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.

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.

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.

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