The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. -- Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be. -- Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. -- Pearl Sydenstricker Buck