Pearl S. Buck

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.