Leo Tolstoy — Russian Novelist born on September 09, 1828, died on November 20, 1910

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist regarded as one of the greatest of all time... (wikipedia)

If you want to be happy, be.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Joy 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.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.