From 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. BuckI am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
Pearl S. BuckFor our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
Pearl S. Buck