Pearl S. Buck

"My country must be kept beautiful and preserved for future generations."

"Education is the most practical path to equality and justice."

"We are not given a good life or a bad life. We are given a life and the power to make it good or bad."

"The house of life has narrow and confining rooms; the house of death is wide and free."

"Parents can give you everything except happiness."

"The really great person is not born great, but becomes great through their actions."

"Patience is the strongest fortress against the storms of life."

"One cannot make oneself feel something one does not feel, but one can make oneself act justly."

"Women have always been the guardians of wisdom and beauty in this world."

"What is the quality that the strongest and best possess? The ability to survive setbacks."

"The purpose of marriage is not romance; it is survival."

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."

"Without continuity there is no meaning; without meaning there is no time."

"Death is a release, like letting the load drop from an overburdened pack."

"Every great mistake teaches a great lesson if we are humble enough to learn."

"The loneliness of the rich is often the most acute kind of loneliness."

"No lasting culture has ever emerged from a people without work."

"The desire to create is the desire to live and to grow."

"Music expresses that which cannot be spoken and that which cannot be left unsaid."

"War does not solve problems; it merely postpones them with great cost."

"The truth is that life itself is the supreme good."

"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy."

"Health is the first of all freedoms."

"Every experience shapes us and defines the people we become."

"The greatest discovery of any generation is that an individual can alter the course of their destiny."

"Food and sex are indeed related to the deepest human needs and longings."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation; it is what leads us forward."

"The duty of the human being is to assume control over their own circumstances."

"Fear is the only darkness from which we need truly to be freed."

"A person is the product of what they think about all day long."