Leo Tolstoy

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

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

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.