“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”

— Pearl S. Buck, To My Daughters, With Love, 1967, "To the Young"

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.”

“Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.”

“Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or woman lost?”

“Dream therefore of what you still have rather than what you have lost.”

“Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.”

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”