All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

If you want to be happy, be.

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder.