Gregory David Roberts Quotes

I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future.

A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.

Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.

Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.

Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

There's no believing in God...We either know God, or we don't.

A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.

Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes.

The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.

The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.

Shantaram is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to Shantaram, the first a prequel.

Powerful people have no regrets.

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

Sometimes you have to lose to win

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.

They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.

You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.

A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

Ask people for help. You'll be all right. Don't worry. It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun.

One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?

I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.

There's no such thing as forever.

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.

Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.

It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.