Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

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.

And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted,and how they would gamble in this great tea shop and in that, and what pretty women they would buy for their lust, and above all, how none would ever work again, even as they rich man behind the wall never worked.

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.

Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.

Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever. Love alone had awakened her sleeping soul and had made it deathless.She knew she was immortal.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it then life is dull without it.

Introversion at least if extreme is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines reaching into infinity meet somewhere yonder.

When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

Once the what is decided the how always follows. We must not make the how an excuse for not facing and accepting the what.

One faces the future with ones past.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

It is better not to say lend. There is only giving.

I dont wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

I am comforted by lifes stability by earths unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge.