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.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.