409 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

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

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

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

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

Happiness was waiting to be chosen.

All things are possible until they are proven impossible.

Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.

He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell."(America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938)