Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Abraham Verghese

Etheopian Physician, Author, Professor the the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School, Senior associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine

"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 yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny."

"You live it forward, but understand it backward."