Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

— Leo Tolstoy

Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time than when the two best virtues -- innocent joy and the boundless desire for love -- were the only motives in life?

— Leo Tolstoy

With all my soul I wished to be good, but I was young, passionate and alone, completely alone when I sought goodness. Every time I tried to express my most sincere desire, which was to be morally good, I met with contempt and ridicule, but as soon as I yielded to low passions I was praised and encouraged.

— Leo Tolstoy

With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

— Leo Tolstoy

With no doubt Al Hussain was one of the greatest rebels, for correcting the path of rulers who deviated from the right path. He, by his stance honorably acquired martyrdom that free people wish to acquire.

— Leo Tolstoy

Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I.

— Leo Tolstoy

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

— Leo Tolstoy

Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.

— Leo Tolstoy

Work is the inevitable condition of human life the true source of human welfare.

— Leo Tolstoy

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

— Leo Tolstoy