Pearl S. Buck

"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom."

"Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect."

"The secret to contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and being able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach."

"To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth."

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination."

"You must accept your cross. Then in a little while it will be a sword."

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

"True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God."

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

"Any preoccupation with ideas of what is to come only adds to the waste of energy."

"Praise and blame are all one to the wise."

"Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster is women."

"It is the people who can do nothing who find the most to criticize in those who are doing something."

"The test of a country is not the Cameron or Wells test, but how it treats the men, women and children that it governs."

"How can there be peace when drunkards throw their children on the street."

"Hunger is a more interesting problem than you are, or I am."

"The really great writers are poets. They are expressing the essence of things."

"All men are not content to sit at home the whole time when they are not occupied with their business."

"To serve is beautiful, but only when it is not a slavery."

"Anger and fear seem to have come into our country as two enormous bullies."

"The fundamental reason for our malaise is that our young people have no faith in the future."

"Knowledge is the basis of everything."

"One faces the future with one's past."

"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair."

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened."

"The country is at war. Yet from the very beginning it does not seem like a real war."

"Human nature is the same everywhere; it is always capable of being moved by the same causes."

"If our nation's scholars and leaders are to contribute their historical wisdom to the future of mankind, they must transcend the narrow perspectives of today."

"The broad world is a strange place and wonderful."