Leo Tolstoy

"The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on scheming to save their lives when that scheming loses them."

"I cannot conceive of the real thing called death at all."

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

"Patience is a quality more powerful than any army."

"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy."

"The law of action and reaction is the law of life."

"Education, in the largest sense, is any act by which we help someone to reach the fullest realization of their capacities."

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

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

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

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

"What we have called the immoral is always the exceptional, and what we have called moral is always the customary."

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

"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."

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

"Boredom is the desire for desires."

"Man can endure the greatest hardships if he believes they are necessary."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."

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

"Knowledge is the instrument of love."

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

"Ambition is the death of truth."

"The task of man is to find happiness in understanding life's purpose."

"Compassion is the foundation of morality."

"Man is born crying. When he has cried enough, he dies."

"The struggle which we call existence is a struggle of beliefs."

"Mistakes are the necessary stepping stones in the path of wisdom."

"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him."

"Education cultivates a sense of wonder."

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, and bridge to our future."