Angie Winnie

“The first was that if one did not master one’s circumstances, one was bound to be mastered by them; and the second was Montaigne’s maxim that the surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“faith, hope, and love (with the greatest of these being love).”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“the wise man celebrates what he can.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“For the French it is Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People; for the Dutch, Rembrandt’s Night Watch; for the Americans, Washington Crossing the Delaware; and for we Russians? It is a pair of twins: Nikolai Ge’s Peter the Great Interrogating Alexei and Ilya Repin’s Ivan the Terrible and His Son. For decades, these two paintings have been revered by our public, praised by our critics,”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow