01UndatedWhen we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there.Pearl S. Buck / quote ↗
02UndatedOnce the "what" is decided the "how" always follows. We must not make the "how" an excuse for not facing and accepting the "what."Pearl S. Buck / quote ↗
06UndatedI don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.Pearl S. Buck / quote ↗
07UndatedI am comforted by life's stability by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge.Pearl S. Buck / quote ↗
08UndatedWe need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.Pearl S. Buck / quote ↗
11UndatedWhen hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.Pearl S. Buck / quote ↗
13UndatedThe young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it generation after generation.Pearl S. Buck / quote ↗
14UndatedPraise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.Pearl S. Buck / quote ↗
15UndatedThe secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.Pearl S. Buck / quote ↗
16UndatedIf 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.Pearl S. Buck / quote ↗
20UndatedThe 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.Pearl S. Buck / quote ↗
21UndatedYou can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.Pearl S. Buck / quote ↗
22UndatedWe should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.Pearl S. Buck / quote ↗
23UndatedOur society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.Pearl S. Buck / quote ↗
24UndatedIn 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.Pearl S. Buck / quote ↗
