Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)

"The truth we avoid always finds us."

"We seek happiness in the wrong places."

"Authenticity is the rarest form of courage."

"The greatest battles are fought within ourselves."

"It is often said that man is ruled by his passions, but it would be truer to say that man is ruled by his imagination."

"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."

"All the variety, all the charm, and all the beauty of life is made up of light and shade."

"There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail."

"Death, the last sleep? No, the final awakening."

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."

"Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"The more we live, the more we realize that man's greatest enemy is himself."

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

"The true measure of a person is how they treat those who can do them no good."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"Patience is the virtue of the strong."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that the very existence is an act of rebellion."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."

"Beauty fades, but character endures."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

"Music is the universal language of mankind."

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

"The greatest wealth is good health."

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away."