The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes

And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves,but by the love for them that is in other people.

In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men the power to establish laws. What gives them the power to establish laws is the same thing which secures obedience to them - organized violence.

If there is no higher reason--and there is none--then my own reason must be the supreme judge of my life

I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.

There was no answer except the usual answer life gives to the most complicated and insoluble questions. This answer is: carry on with your everyday affairs, that is to say, put it out of your mind.

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

The more everybody lives, the more life reveals to him; what was unknown becomes known.

Ivan Ilyich's life was most simple, and most ordinary, and therefore most terrible.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.