Pierre Bezukhov

"Imagination allows us to transcend the limitations of our present circumstances."

"The pursuit of truth requires both intellectual rigor and spiritual humility."

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

"Nothing is absolute; everything flows."

"The immensity of life overwhelms us."

"Freedom is the absence of constraint."

"Knowledge without compassion is hollow."

"Dreams are the windows of the soul."

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for."

"True power lies in surrender."

"Fear is the greatest enemy of truth."

"The greatest adventure is self-discovery."

"Solitude reveals who we truly are."

"History would show something new (with a sickly face and trembling voice began to read)."

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

"Everything comes to those who wait."

"We cannot escape from ourselves."

"There is in every man a spark of the divine fire."

"One must love life to love God."

"A man is born, but to become a man he must be remade."

"The whole secret of the existence of man is that he should find something to do."

"True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words."

"One must be a creator to understand creation."

"What is this power? It must be justice."

"Family is the true unit of life."

"In life there is nothing more precious than living through"

"Man cannot live by bread alone, but by meaning"

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains of his own making"

"Knowledge without wisdom is merely the accumulation of facts"

"Success in life comes not from following others but from finding one's own path"