Top 49 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

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

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.