"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back."

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About Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral thinker best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina. His fiction and essays addressed ethics, religion, and social reform. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists in world literature.

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