But now everything will be different. It is nonsense to believe that life will not allow it, that the past will not allow it. I must struggle to live a better life, a far better life.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

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

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

History would be an excellent thing, if only it were true.

I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
-Tolstoy