"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself."
-- Leo Tolstoy"To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature."
-- Leo Tolstoy"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience."
-- Leo Tolstoy"The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."
-- Leo Tolstoy"All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Boredom: the desire for desires."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Spring is the time of plans and projects."
-- Leo Tolstoy"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth."
-- Leo Tolstoy"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
-- Leo Tolstoy"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."
-- Leo Tolstoy"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
-- Leo Tolstoy"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
-- Leo Tolstoy"If you want to be happy, be."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
-- Leo Tolstoy"No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful."
-- Ernest Hemingway
