Pearl S. Buck

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.