Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

We must have hope or starve to death.

When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it generation after generation.

Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

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

If you start to revise before youve reached the end, youre likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

Love dies only when growth stops.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

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

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husbands bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

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.

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.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.