It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.

He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

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

To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.