"You live it forward, but understand it backward."
- Abraham Verghese
"The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't you..."
"Yesterday misspent can't be recall'dVanity makes beauty contemptibleWisdom is more valuable than riches."
"God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace."
"When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart..."
"Being the first born gives you great patience."
"Be ready. Be seated. See what courage sounds like. See how brave it is to reveal yourself in this way. But above all, see what it is to still live, to profoundly influence the lives of others after yo..."
"Children were the foot wedged in the closing door, the glimmer of hope that in reincarnation there would be some house to go to, even if one came back as a dog, or a mouse, or flea that lived on the b..."
"A man is only as rich as the number of children he fathers. After all, what else do we leave behind in this world..."
"Everyone needed an obsession."