409 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.