Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.

He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.