409 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

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

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

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

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

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.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.

Love alone could waken love.