409 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

an artist is always seeking revelation.

The rich are always afraid.

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?

It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.