Everything on earth [is] beautiful, everything, except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease it means that the disease is incurable.

—Anton Chekhov

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

—Anton Chekhov

To advise is not to compel.

—Anton Chekhov

There is nothing new in art except talent.

—Anton Chekhov

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

—Anton Chekhov

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

—J. Paul Getty

The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots.… Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what is given, as earth or air, sun or moon or stars, or the dreams of man.

—Cid Corman

And who shall say—whatever disenchantment follows—that we ever forget magic, or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple tree, the singing, and the gold?

—Thomas Wolfe

I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world.

—Barbara Woodhouse