I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

—Pearl Buck

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

—Pearl Buck

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

—Pearl Buck

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

—Pearl Buck

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

—Pearl Buck

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

—Michael J. Fox

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

—John F. Kennedy

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

—Jane Austen

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

—George Will