Leo Tolstoy

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

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."

"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."

"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do."

"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person."

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."

"Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live."

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

"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful."

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

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."