409 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

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

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

I am mentally bifocal.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.