Leo Tolstoy

Kings are the slaves of history.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

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.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible….except by getting off his back.

Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.

We live thick and are in each other’s way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

You. Not wanting me. Was the beginning of me wanting myself. Thank you.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Beauty without expression is boring.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.