Leo Tolstoy

Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.

Every heart has its own skeletons.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Enough or not…it will have to do.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious!

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.