Leo Tolstoy

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

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

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Not to be provok’d is best: But if mov’d, never correct till the Fume is spent; For every Stroke our Fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.

Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.

Strange – is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.