What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.
Leo TolstoyJoy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Leo TolstoyFrom the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
Leo Tolstoy