Quotes by : Pearl S. Buck

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

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....

Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot....

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

He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was....

We must learn to live with danger, " he now said to Kino. "Do you mean the ocean and the volcano cannot....

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation....

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

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do....