Pearl S. BuckThinkers

Age is measurable by the amount of pain you feel when you come into contact with a new idea.

Anger gives energy to the mind, but only if it is harnessed and held in control.

Birth is always unwilling.

The Black man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority and the white man is not willing to give up his superiority.

Duty is the other side of rights.

The Hand is the eye of a blind man.

History is necessary in understanding our present. If one wants to understand today, one has to search yesterday.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Laughter is the cruelest form of contempt when expressed as tolerant laughter.

A Mistake is always possessed of a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.