Leo Tolstoy

"We are dying from consumption of our own products."

"Kind words are like honey - a little may sweeten our day."

"To love someone means to see them as God intended."

"The secret of life consists not in fighting evil but in producing good."

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

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

"The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why."

"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth."

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

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

"We are asleep until we fall in love."

"Patience is the virtue of the strong."

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

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment and information as a commodity."

"History would be a wonderful thing if only it were true."

"The only real knowledge is knowing how little we know."

"Our body is a machine for living. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself."

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

"If you want to be happy, be."

"There is no greater wealth than health."

"The greatest revolution is love."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it."

"Everything comes to those who wait, but those who work get it sooner."

"The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has."

"True life begins where the social obligation ends."

"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."

"To be alive is the biggest fear humans have."

"I simply want to love and be loved."