Pearl S. Buck

I will spend the rest of my life assembling my own mind and my own soul. I will take care of my body carefully, not that it may any more please a man, but because it houses me and therefore I am dependent upon it.

Pearl S. Buck

If one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone.

Pearl S. Buck

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

Pearl S. Buck

if we could know that it would always be full, men would be idle and laugh and play games like children, and then we would have peace and happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

Pearl S. Buck

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Pearl S. Buck

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

Pearl S. Buck

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

Pearl S. Buck

It is easy to destroy but hard to create. Remember that, when you want to destroy something.

Pearl S. Buck

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

Pearl S. Buck