Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist. "

"If you cry 'Forward' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite "

"Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. "

"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. "

"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured. "