“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”

— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (1865–1869), Book X

About Leo Tolstoy

1828 – 1910

Russian novelist and moral philosopher, author of 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'.

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.”

“Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.”

“They also serve who only stand and wait.”

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”

“No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”

“We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.”

“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”