Pierre Bezukhov

"Every person contains multitudes within themselves"

"It is often stated that a man cannot serve two masters, and therefore it is impossible for anyone to be a true citizen and a true Christian at the same time."

"A man is born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake."

"Our life passes in the service of an external god, and we imagine that our own life is the real one."

"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can make a man completely unhappy."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"To love life is to love God; it is one and the same thing."

"The happiness of a man is not in the fulfillment of his desires, but in his ability to choose them."

"To know and to act are one and the same thing."

"The man in the street does not interest me unless he is suffering"

"Life everywhere is the same"

"A man is always a slave. Either to the law or to other men"

"The absence of a sense of guilt is a sure sign of great intellectual power"

"Friendship is like a glass ornament, once broken it can rarely be put together exactly the same way"

"To understand others, one must first understand oneself"

"A life without purpose is a ship without a rudder"

"To love another is to see the face of God"

"Life is everything. Life is God. Everything changes and moves and that movement is God."

"Man cannot alter circumstances, but he can alter himself."

"To love life is to love God."

"Freedom is not given but taken."

"A man is happy when he is truly free."

"The great secret of life is to know that which is eternal and unchanging."

"The present moment is the only reality."

"The soul grows through suffering."

"Life teaches us lessons that no book can teach."

"To live is to change, and to change is to mature."

"The human spirit is stronger than any circumstance."

"I have come to hate everything. I must forget everything that has happened to me."

"The most difficult thing is to love life, to love it anyway, just as it is."