“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828 to 1910), from War and Peace

A Russian author, a master of realistic fiction, and one of the world’s greatest novelists.

Tolstoy is best known for his two longest works, War and Peace (1865–69) and Anna Karenina (1875–77), which are commonly regarded as among the finest novels ever written.