Pearl S. Buck

"The young do not know what age means and old people forget what youth was."

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

"Love alone is a beautiful thing, but there is something beyond love."

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive."

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

"Everything that happens to you is your teacher."

"At the heart of her kindness lay a simple creed: do unto others."

"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

"Life cannot wait until you are ready."

"In each conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future, and bonds to each other."

"Knowledge is power."

"There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. The vulgar in the fullest sense of the word have always called them troublemakers."

"A woman who has experienced the depths of life is best fitted to plumb its heights."

"The person who says it is impossible should not interrupt the person doing it."

"Genius is not born; it is taught."

"I am not interested in hearing about a man's virtues; I am interested in his achievements."

"The writer is not alive, today, who sees too deeply into the human heart."

"Money is the root of all evil, but it is also the root of civilization."

"All seems infected that the infected spy, as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."

"The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado."

"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."

"You cannot make anything of value happen overnight."

"I wonder what it is in the American mind, to insist always upon happiness."

"If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality."

"We are doomed to cling to each other with insane fury, lest we be alone."

"The young should learn how to think, not what to think."

"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."