Leo Tolstoy

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…

Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good.’

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sun beams and you will always look lovely!

But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.