Leo Tolstoy

"The two sources of conscience are reason and feeling."

"There is no such thing as chance. Only encounters of destiny."

"Spring is the time of plans and projects."

"The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty."

"Get rid of the cant! It's the root of all evil."

"Thousands of men sacrifice their health to gain money. Thousands more sacrifice money to regain health."

"Courage is not the absence of fear. It is not a fearless person. It is a person who is scared to death but jumps anyway."

"The secret of peace is respect."

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

"The mind can accept anything provided it is given time to grow."

"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience."

"The difficulty of literature is that it must be exact."

"If you want to be happy, be."

"The greatest freedom is that which exists between two equal people."

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."

"No genuine spiritual work can happen without grace."

"Lies may be told through silence as well as through speech."

"My position is a very simple one: that if there is no God, then conscience itself is a delusion."

"Spring is the time of plans and projects, and we must hurry."

"After all, the greatest happiness lies in the joy of a peaceful conscience."

"The moment of change is the only poem."

"Knowledge is one. Its division into subjects is a human convenience."

"A man should not be judged by his worst nor best moments."

"Power consists in one man's will imposing itself on another's."

"Old age is when you realize that all the labels are false."

"Writing is not difficult. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words."

"The primary condition for the peace of nations should be the happiness of peoples."

"The artist is not a different kind of person, but each of us is a different kind of artist."

"Evil does not exist. There is only the absence of good."

"Every heart has its own ache."