Pearl S. Buck

Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband’s bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Pearl S. Buck

The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.

Pearl S. Buck

The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit.

Pearl S. Buck

The fight for equality begins in your own soul, and then it must spread as wide as the world.

Pearl S. Buck

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

Pearl S. Buck

The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.

Pearl S. Buck

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

Pearl S. Buck

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Pearl S. Buck

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Pearl S. Buck