Pierre Bezukhov

"We are the makers of our own fortune."

"To love is to suffer."

"A man should belong to no party; that is what guarantees his freedom."

"A man who has suffered has truly lived."

"There is something in the human spirit that cannot be reconciled with any slavery, however comfortable."

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

"Solitude is sometimes the best society."

"People are always in one of three moods."

"In life there is nothing certain but death and taxes."

"The simplest and most obvious truth is often the hardest to see."

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

"The consciousness of our strength is the first step toward victory."

"The very process of searching is the only way to truth."

"The greater the freedom, the greater the responsibility."

"The heart recognizes in a moment what the mind cannot grasp in years."

"All happiness comes from acceptance of what is."

"Man cannot alter the past, but he can ruin the present by worrying about the future"

"A man is not born for defeat"

"Freedom is everything to him who has been deprived of it"

"Patience is the virtue of the strong"

"Only through suffering can the soul achieve enlightenment"

"Everything comes in time to those who wait."

"Our body is a temple of the Holy Ghost, and we must not corrupt it."

"The highest wisdom is charity."

"For us with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, what answer can there be to the question of what is bad?"

"It is necessary to know what one is seeking."

"To love life is to love God."

"I have learned that we must love life more than the meaning of life."

"To love a person is to see them as God intended them to be."

"A man is what his thoughts make him."