You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
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… — 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
