Anton Chekhov

"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves."

"A literary man would be corrupted if he attempted to earn a living by literature."

"Not a trace of thought; your speech flies away on the wind like a bird."

"Youth is wasted on the young."

"Genuine love is a slow and gradual process."

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod."

"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to dare, the strength to fight, the faith to believe, and the hope to keep striving in the face of the stark impossibility of their cause."

"Perhaps the most difficult problem for a woman is that she is constantly becoming older."

"I'd like to be remembered for my good work and kindness."

"The stupidest thing one can do is to declare: I am wise."

"If we were to awaken tomorrow and discover we were dead, we would rejoice."

"When a woman is desperately in love, she will risk everything to be with her beloved."

"Fear is nature's way of saying you're about to do something important."

"To be successful in life, you must possess strong convictions."

"The happy ones are those who are silly."

"Money, like vodka, can warm you for only a short time."

"A writer must believe that life is interesting and talent is useful."

"There's a fire in human nature which we can't stamp out."

"The heart wants what it wants, or else it does not care."

"Happiness is when a person believes in something."

"A creative act is like an act of physical creation."

"You can be anything you set your mind to be."

"Medicine is the art of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

"The task of all literature is to awaken consciousness."

"How dreadful it is to love something that death can touch."

"Honest words are more powerful than all words."

"In this world, it's not what you have, it's what you do with what you have."

"Only the people who are looking for something notice anything."

"The truth, sir, is that even philosophers are men."

"When a man has once loved deeply, he cannot help being interested in death."