Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone.

The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow

Renunciation is everyone's prerogative.

Never make a promise in haste.