Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done. - Anton Chekhov

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

"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."

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

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