Abraham Verghese Quotes

The master-word is Work, a little one, as I have said, but fraught with momentous sequences if you can but write it on the tablets of your hearts, and bind it upon your foreheads.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd
Vanity makes beauty contemptible
Wisdom 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.

God will judge us by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.

Being the first born gives you great patience.

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...

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 bodies of men. If...there was a raising of the dead, then a child would be sure to see that its parents were awakened.

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.