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

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck

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

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
- Pearl S. Buck

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.
- Pearl S. Buck

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
- Pearl S. Buck

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
- Pearl S. Buck

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