Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

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

“Truth is always exciting. Speak it then life is dull without it.”

“Introversion at least if extreme is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.”

“When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there.”

“In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines reaching into infinity meet somewhere yonder.”

“Once the "what" is decided the "how" always follows. We must not make the "how" an excuse for not facing and accepting the "what."”

“Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.”

“It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.”

“I am comforted by life's stability by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge.”

“We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.”

“We must have hope or starve to death.”

“When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.”

“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”

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

“Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.”

“If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.”

“Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung”

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.”

“Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.”

“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.”