Leo Tolstoy

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the Key.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

A holy spirit lives within you.

Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is far from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, _x000D_ and the rational need for a mate in life

Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.