Quotes from Gregory David Roberts

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

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.

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.

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.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

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

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

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

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

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

If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.

I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

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.

Sometimes, when you live a life at such a wild edge, an extreme edge of experience, you can come back into the world - if you come back at all - with some essence from that experience that people find useful.

More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

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.

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.

There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you're determined to dislike for no good reason.

Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever.