Leo Tolstoy

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

If you want to be happy, be.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

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

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

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