Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.
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 TolstoyWhen I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."
Leo TolstoyIt 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.
Leo Tolstoy