"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible."
-- Leo Tolstoy"The surest sign of the truth is simplicity and clarity."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings."
-- Leo Tolstoy"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already."
-- Leo Tolstoy"To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait."
-- Leo Tolstoy"If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul."
-- Leo Tolstoy"To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them."
-- 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"Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary."
-- Leo Tolstoy"The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."
-- Leo Tolstoy"Boredom: the desire for desires."
-- 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"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
