Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.
Leo TolstoyThe more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Leo TolstoyThe whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.
Leo TolstoyOne must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.
Leo Tolstoy