What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.

It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.