Pearl S. Buck

He could have been lonely except that he was never lonely, since he had always been alone.

Pearl S. Buck

I am comforted by life’s stability, by earth’s unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Pearl S. Buck

I am never better pleased than when I know a book of mine can be bought for fifty cents or, better still, for twenty-five. No people can be educated or even cultivated until books are cheap enough for everybody to buy.

Pearl S. Buck

I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.

Pearl S. Buck

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women – certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

Pearl S. Buck

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

Pearl S. Buck

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.

Pearl S. Buck

I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.

Pearl S. Buck

I loved both my parents, but at different times and in different ways.

Pearl S. Buck

I should like to pierce the mysteries of your soul.

Pearl S. Buck