Leo Tolstoy

It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

I think… if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget…

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

Buddhist practice is simply a system directed to the one end of lessening the suffering of life.

Music brought me closer to the idea of God.

The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.

Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood, carry water.

Believe in something larger than yourself…get involved in the big ideas of your time.

There’s nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain’t going to have no troubles.

I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.

When one person suffers from a delusion It is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion It is called Religion.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity.

We all die unhealed

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.