“Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.”
“History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives”
“There is nothing more beautiful than living a simple life in this complex universe!”
“I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.”
“Life is beautiful. Some people just remind you of that more than others.”
“In a very real sense, people who have read good literaturehave lived more than people who cannot or will not read.It is not true that we have only one life to lead; if we can read,we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”