Pearl S. Buck

"There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a heart without love."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"Writing is work, and it is good work when it is real."

"Men and women who work together create the best of all possible worlds."

"Every human soul is of infinite importance."

"War is not an instrument of policy."

"The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love."

"I do not believe in communism any more than you do, but I do not hate Russians."

"To know another person is to have taken a great step in understanding oneself."

"The most destructive element in the human spirit is fear."

"Democracy fails when citizens cease to participate."

"A writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world."

"I cannot conceive of myself as a woman writer."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas and still function."

"Understanding comes through knowledge and compassion."

"When you understand the depths of your own nature, you understand all nature."

"The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own."

"We are all bound together in the human enterprise."

"Conflict is the gadfly of thought."

"A person must have the capacity to suffer and not be destroyed by it."

"The most vital quality a human being can possess is imagination."

"Children are not really human until they are about forty years old."

"Every revolution ends up with people in different chairs."

"There are many ways to be wise; wisdom is not the exclusive domain of the old."

"The person who interprets life as a struggle is the enemy of peace."

"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to create a menace to society."

"Real change must start from within the human heart."

"The greatest adventure is self-discovery."

"Life is made of millions of moments, each with infinite possibility."