Anton Chekhov:  I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to a person.  I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow.  I want to be walking along in the open fields, or on the ocean...

The Mailman:  "You be careful out there, now.  They do not care about us.  I try to go as fast as they do just so I can stay alive."

"What had I been doing that was so sinful?  I rarely lied, except to my mother.  I never stole, except from my mother..." - Henry Miller

Ralph Waldo Emerson:  "I defend myself against failure in the main design by making every inch of the road to it pleasant."

Henry Miller:  "Along the rivers of France you will often stumble across men leaning over a parapet and dreaming."

Jean Giono:  "No, it isn’t anything.  Let’s get it straight.  It isn’t anything because it will change nothing.  I, I know.  They can go to the moon, it won’t change anything.  Because the whole happiness of people is in the little valleys.  There is one thing that is the great tragedy of life.  Yes, of life.  It is that we are only in halves.  From the time we began to build houses and cities, since we invented the wheel, we have not advanced one step toward happiness.  We have always been in halves.  As long as we invent and progress in mechanical things and not in love, we shall not achieve happiness.  I care nothing about your flying machines if half my heart is bleeding because it lacks the other half, the one without which it will never be one of the fine fruits of the earth.  All those magic carpets, they will bring cargoes of sorrows and terrible things, as long as you expect sensitivity and love of them.  You know where things ought to be invented?  In the call, in the voice, in the sound that comes from the heart.  I am still calling.  Nevertheless I know that I shall no longer be heard.  Remember, all of people’s happiness is in the little valleys."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery:  Those who have given their lives to labors of love go straight to my heart.