Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable.
Leo TolstoySo he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.
Leo TolstoyPerhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.
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