Leo Tolstoy

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

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.

The sense of injustice, more than the unjust condition itself, is what wears on men’s minds.

It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I apologize when I’m wrong.

I don’t know how to drive.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

Well, I’m not sure what pop psychology is, but I don’t like it.

When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?”

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possesion, a duty.