Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

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.

Love alone could waken love.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

“Happiness was waiting to be chosen.”

“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”

“Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.”