Pearl S. Buck

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

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.

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

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

We 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.

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

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

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.

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.