Leo Tolstoy

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

"If you want to be happy, be."

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change themselves."

"In the end, everything is a gag."

"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within them."

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."

"The main difference between animals and humans is money."

"History is the life of mankind."

"Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire."

"The greatest wisdom is to know yourself."

"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom."

"The world is a looking glass: it reflects your own face on it."

"One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love."

"Ideal family love is not something to be learned, like mathematics or chemistry."

"Human beings in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents."

"Love is life."

"If you look back on the past, you will see how these difficulties have strengthened you."

"Take full account of what Excellency the past may be to you. All knowledge that the world has ever had is inheritance."

"The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for an audience, but deeds can be done only for God."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"The participation of women in political power is absolutely necessary."

"Man can live without religion, but he cannot live without hope."

"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."

"The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the more free you are."

"But what does it matter? God is present everywhere."

"Death can only be called bad by those who view existence as a good."

"Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful."