Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Only the brave should teach…Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit.… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja proljeća koja nikad ne presahnu” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
