“Give more, don't expect not to be repaid. Give more thanks for what you haven’t expected but received!”

“Take responsibility for your anger and learn to deal with it—process it and bring closure to it, and that will relieve the pressure.”

“Yes, there is something uncanny, demonic and fascinating in her.”

“No, I’m not settling here. I’m going to keep pressing forward.”

“That is why the key to long-lasting success is to develop habits — new, positive habits that replace our self-defeating behaviors.”

“The role that people play in your life can determine how far you can go.”

“Words are the currency of ideas and have the power to change the world.”

“We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.”

“How does a person become productive? Find your strength and then find someone who needs your strength.”

“Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.”

“Um ein tadelloses Mitglied einer Schafherde sein zu können, muß man vor allem ein Schaf sein.”

“Tienes que dejar atrás tus desilusiones y fracasos,”

“I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?”

“Levin was almost of the same age as Oblonsky; their intimacy did not rest merely on champagne. Levin had been the friend and companion of his early youth. They were fond of one another in spite of the difference of their characters and tastes, as friends are fond of one another who have been together in early youth. But in spite of this, each of them—as is often the way with men who have selected careers of different kinds—though in discussion he would even justify the other's career, in his heart despised it. It seemed to each of them that the life he led himself was the only real life, and the life led by his friend was a mere phantasm. Oblonsky could not restrain a slight mocking smile at the sight of Levin. How often he had seen him come up to Moscow from the country where he was doing something, but what precisely Stepan Arkadyevitch could never quite make out, and indeed he took no interest in the matter. Levin arrived in Moscow always excited and in a hurry, rather ill at ease and irritated by his own want of ease, and for the most part with a perfectly new, unexpected view of things. Stepan Arkadyevitch laughed at this, and liked it. In the same way Levin in his heart despised the town mode of life of his friend, and his official duties, which he laughed at, and regarded as trifling. But the difference was that Oblonsky, as he was doing the same as every one did, laughed complacently and good-humoredly, while Levin laughed without complacency and sometimes angrily.”

“Real courage is being afraid but doing it anyway.”