Leo Tolstoy

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

God is the same everywhere.

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

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

Kings are the slaves of history.

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

I don’t have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they’re all right for me.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

The love we were promised in fairy tales was never something for us to find. It has always been something for us to create.

The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

That is what we are put in the world for, to get experience and to help others get it. It is the one thing no one can take away from us.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

She isn’t the sunrise, she’s the f**king sun.

Pardon me if I haunt you tonight.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Nothing endures but change.

If I’d known I’d live to be a 100 I’d have taken much better care of myself.