It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.
Leo TolstoyThe chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.
Leo TolstoyI now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.
Leo TolstoyAll were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy - a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.
Leo Tolstoy