But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute – was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart – the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.

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

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.