Pierre Bezukhov

"A man only lives when he is striving for a goal."

"All that is good and noble is born from understanding."

"The freedom of a man consists in this: that he does what he ought to do."

"The human soul is capable of great transformation through suffering."

"Faith sustains us when reason fails."

"The most powerful force in the world is habit."

"Every moment of our life we are entering into the new world."

"Life flows within us as well as without us."

"Our life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"The eternal silence of infinite spaces frightens me."

"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too?'"

"In the depth of winter, I found there was in me an invincible summer."

"The path to true happiness is paved with gratitude."

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."

"Fear is the tool of a man who is afraid of himself."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Man cannot live without some faith in something infinite"

"The force of life is in man's ability to change"

"When you love someone, you love the whole person"

"The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life"

"The most difficult thing, but the most essential, is to love life"

"The greatest discovery of my generation is the knowledge of another's suffering"

"We can know only that we know nothing and that is the highest wisdom"

"Happiness lies not in virtue alone, but in the exercise of virtue"

"Love is life"

"To understand is to forgive"

"The measure of a man is how he treats those who cannot benefit him"

"We are the makers of our own fortune."