destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.
Pearl S. BuckA good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl S. BuckThe only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.
Pearl S. BuckWe learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
Pearl S. BuckI learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.
Pearl S. Buck