War and Peace

"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him."

"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."

"Life, after all, is not a thing of importance so long as it is not useless."

"We cannot live only for ourselves; the lives of all people are interdependent."

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

"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."

"The simplest and most obvious truths are the hardest to see and understand."

"There is nothing so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women."

"Knowledge without action is useless."

"Man cannot possess anything so long as he fears death."

"To get at the truth we must first put aside our pride and our bad habits."

"We are all fools sometimes, the difference is that clever people profit by their mistakes."

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

"What is power? Power is when one person's will predominates over another's."

"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him."

"Everything comes in time to those who wait."

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

"That terrible question: what am I living for?"

"Our assumptions and conjectures are the source of our suffering."

"We are the makers of our own fortunes."

"God is not in strength but in truth."

"Everything comes to those who wait."

"Everything changes and continues to be the same"

"When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you"

"I am alive and I know it. But you just live"

"Death is awful. It is better not to think of it"

"We forget everything and everybody, and we always think people will forget us too"

"The difficulty of the task only increases my desire to undertake it"

"I cannot abandon Russia in her time of need"

"Everything is determined, from everlasting, and every human action happens only in seeming as if of its own accord"