Anton Chekhov

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. ”

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. ”

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean, that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two, that's science. ”

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. ”

Man is what he believes. ”

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. ”

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. ”

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out. ”