Leo Tolstoy

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means—except by getting off his back.

The most difficult thing is to love the world and not to despise it.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

People are afraid of the truth, of real love, of being loved.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

To be good and to be bad, these are not things, but only words.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

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

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.

Truth, like gold, is not to be obtained by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

The greatest mistake is to think that you are too old to learn.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

If you want to be happy, be.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Everything depends on education. Education is everything.

The only certain happiness in life is to live for others.

It is not the quantity of knowledge but the quality of knowledge that determines the future of humanity.

One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal aims of humanity.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that. Stop him in his tracks, it will last longer.