«The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.»

Pearl S. Buck *

* (Hillsboro, WV, U.S. 26-June-1892 / Danby, VT, U.S. 6-Mar-1973).
Writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in China. Her novel "The Good Earth" was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces.