Pearl S. Buck

"There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood."

"When you are young, you think that failure is the end of the world."

"The beginning is the most important part of any work."

"Love alone is a beautiful thing, but there is something infinitely more beautiful."

"Time cannot be expanded, accumulated, mortgaged, borrowed, stolen, or wasted."

"We are destroyed by our own choices, made in haste and repented in sorrow."

"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."

"The moment one learns English, complications set in."

"Self-pity is the sludge pile on which the growth of the human plant is hindered."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important."

"The strength of a nation is the strength of its families."

"I have learned that the head does not hear anything until the heart has listened."

"Americans are rather like bad children: they have wonderful qualities, but you do wish they would not sprawl all over the world."

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment and the desire for truth."

"Money is the root of all evil, but the lack of money is the root of all misery."

"A writer must possess a deep and inherent understanding of the human spirit."

"The test of a civilization is how it treats the weak and the helpless."

"I am forced to conclude that I believe in the necessary coexistence of good and evil."

"The poor we shall always have among us, and that will not change."

"Harmony cannot be achieved through force or fear, only through understanding."

"Nature is what we are put on earth to overcome."

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."

"Every woman wants to be first to someone. That is the law of life."

"To find oneself, one must think deeply about what one truly desires."

"We are obligated to do what we can for humanity."

"Belief is a wise wager. Believe in existence, meaning, and your own potential."

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."

"Life's greatest journey is the journey within oneself."

"Any life, if truly examined and accepted, is a journey through the sacred."

"Without dreams and without effort, nothing is possible."