“I enjoy life because I am endlessly interested in people and their growth.”

— Pearl S. Buck, This I Believe, 1951

About Pearl S. Buck

1892 – 1973

American novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature (1938), author of "The Good Earth".

“The really brave man simply acts brave—he doesn't have to talk about it.”

“A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.”

“Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.”

“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”

“Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.”

“Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”

“Indeed, life would be unliveable, even if I did not notice the change.”

“What's old collapses, times change, / And new life blossoms in the ruins.”

“Progress is / The law of life: man is not Man as yet.”