Pearl S. Buck

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

I love people. I love my family, my children... but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew  your springs that never dry up.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is boring without it.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

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

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born, myself a human being.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.