New Delhi, May 17 -- Leo Tolstoy, born Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy in 1828 at Yasnaya Polyana in the Russian Empire, became one of the greatest novelists in world literature. After an aristocratic childhood, military service, and early literary success, he wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina, both widely regarded among the finest novels ever written. In later life, Tolstoy turned increasingly toward moral, religious, educational, and social questions, becoming as influential for his ethical thought as for his fiction.

"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait."- Leo Tolstoy

The quote is widely attributed to Tolstoy's War and Peace and appears in quote selections from the novel. It is often paired with another Tolstoy line fr...