“Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and...” — Pearl S. Buck Quote

“Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.”

“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.”

“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”

“When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.”

“I went to Paris to learn and absorb some of the amazing ambience I was enamored with growing up in Kansas City. I didn't go there to start my own collection. But I never could get an internship, so finally, I was left with just doing my own show.”