Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
Pearl S. BuckThe feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.
Pearl S. BuckThe basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
Pearl S. BuckThe typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?
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. Buck