Just as he lived with them alive, he will live with them dead. Someday he will accept their death as part of his life. He will weep no more. He will carry them in his memory and his thoughts. His flesh and blood are part of them. So long as he is alive, they, too, will live in him. The big wave came, but it went away. The sun shines again, birds sing, and earth flowers.

— 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.

— Pearl S. Buck

Love alone could waken love.

— Pearl S. Buck

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

— Pearl S. Buck

Love dies only when growth stops.

— Pearl S. Buck

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

— Pearl S. Buck

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

— Pearl S. Buck

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

— Pearl S. Buck

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

— Pearl S. Buck

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

— Pearl S. Buck