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.

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.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Before I die, I will preach to the Muslims in the Arab world. I will preach in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. I will preach in Tehran. I will do it under the umbrella of God. And see its impact.