Leo Tolstoy

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

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Music is the shorthand of emotion

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Haste makes Work which Caution prevents.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one’s ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they’ve made, and that’s OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don’t make them over and over again, you’re on the right path.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

To choose time is to save time.