Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence,... - Anton Chekhov

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."

"Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning."

"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."

"Even in Siberia there is happiness."

"These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs."