Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)

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

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived—in which case you fail by default."

"The highest wisdom is to understand that life is fundamentally tragic."

"The vast majority of people never use their real power."

"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."

"Everything that is thought to be impossible is only impossible until somebody does it."

"Family life is more interesting than any novel."

"The presence of the problem does not necessarily mean the absence of the solution."

"There is something in the human heart which this prosperity cannot satisfy."

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing."

"Life is not a matter of finding yourself. Life is a matter of creating yourself."

"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."

"When you loved someone, you were capable of learning everything about them."

"Conscience is the only thing that cannot be mocked."

"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."

"There is one universal law: that life comes from life."

"Freethinkers are generally those whose reason has not been much exercised."

"The whole of life is but keeping away from it."

"Forgiveness is the highest form of love."

"The deeper she sank the more she loved him."

"Life with another person is either marriage or a scandal."

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

"Suffering is the one thing people will do anything to avoid."

"The difficulty is not in dying, but in living."

"Each man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to be true to it."

"Deceit is a poison that destroys everything it touches."

"To know life, to know mankind, one must read deeply and widely."

"The pursuit of happiness is the root of all unhappiness."

"There is a law that compels all beings to endure all the trials they can bear."

"The past cannot be changed, only the future."