Pearl S. Buck

“Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.”

“Love dies only when growth stops.”

“All things are possible until they are proven impossible.”

“And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.”

“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.”

“Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.”

“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.”

“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.”

“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.”

“All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.”

“If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.”

“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”

“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.”

“We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.”

“There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?”

“We must learn to live with danger, " he now said to Kino. "Do you mean the ocean and the volcano cannot hurt us if we are not afraid?" Kino asked. "No," his father replied. "I did not say that. Ocean is there and volcano is there. It is true that on any day ocean may rise into storm and volcano may burst into flame. We must accept this fact, but without fear. We must say, 'Someday I shall die, and does it matter whether it is by ocean or volcano, or whether I grow old and weak?' " "I don't want to think about such things," Kino said. "it is right for you not to think about them," his father said. "Then do not be afraid. When you are afraid, you are thinking about them all the time. Enjoy life and don not fear death - that is the way of a good Japanese.”

“One faces the future with one's past.”

“Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.”

“Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.”