"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is the lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too."
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)

"Love, friendship , respect, do no unite people as much as a common hatred from something."
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)

"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, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day."
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)

"The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected."
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)

"We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)

"When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams."
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)