The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.
Pearl S. BuckWrite a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.
Pearl S. BuckNo longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.
Pearl S. BuckThe secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. BuckFrom that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.
Pearl S. BuckChinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.
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