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

— Pearl S. Buck, What America Means to Me (1943)

About Pearl S. Buck

1892 – 1973

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

“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.”

“All things are possible until they are proved impossible — and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.”

“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we'll ever do.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”