Leo Tolstoy

I received a Tolstoy quotation in my email today. After a bit of research, I discovered that he is the source for some interesting lines:

One should strive not to lie in the negative sense by remaining silent.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Some mathematician has said that enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in the finding it.

Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body. 

Love hinders death. Love is life. Everything, everything I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is connected only by that. Love is God, and to die—means that I, a part of love, return to the common and eternal source.

- Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910)