Pearl S. Buck Quotes

I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe.

You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad

It is the end of a family- when they begin to sell their land. Out of the land we came and into we must go - and if you will hold your land you can live- no one can rob you of land.

And roots, if they are to bear fruits, must be kept well in the soil of the land.

Life is stronger than death.

You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Nothing is menial where there is love.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

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

Hunger makes thief of any man.

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.

You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.