Gregory David Roberts Shantaram Quotations

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

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

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

Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

There's no heart like the Indian heart.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

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

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

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

Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.

You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

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

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

We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

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

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

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.

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

I don't know what frightens me more

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

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