They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and erat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us.

I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness

Energy is based on love.