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

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

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

—Pearl Buck

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace—a connection to what matters.

—Oprah Winfrey

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

—Ninon de L'Enclos

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

—Michel de Montaigne

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

—Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

—Mark Twain