Pierre Bezukhov

"To be a man of principle requires constant vigilance"

"Friendship is the greatest treasure"

"In every man there is a spark of divine truth"

"The soul must be free to be truly happy"

"We cannot change what we are, only what we do."

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

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

"Money cannot buy happiness."

"We cannot change what we have done, but we can change what we will do"

"The only thing we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest degree of human wisdom."

"A man is always a slave. Either he is a slave to God, or a slave to himself."

"For us, with the standard of good and evil given us by Christ, there is nothing for which there is no hope."

"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."

"God is not outside of us, but within us."

"Man is a creature who can get accustomed to anything!"

"One thing only I know for certain and that is that man's judgment of rightness or wrongness is not based on reason."

"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."

"To love life is to love God."

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

"In every human heart there is a spark of heavenly fire."

"The deeper we look the more we understand that happiness lies not in things but in thoughts."

"The only true victory is the one we achieve over ourselves."

"To live is to suffer, but to have never lived is worse."

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

"It is necessary that the ship should have a commander."

"To love is to pray."

"Thought is the property of him alone who has leisure."

"To understand life is to understand death."

"Man cannot change events but only his attitude toward them."

"We are all prisoners of our circumstances until we choose freedom."