He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

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

The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.