Gregory David Roberts Quotes

We can compel men not to be bad, but we cannot compel them to be good,

I looked at her for a while, reading the runes in her sky-blue eyes. Then I stood from the wall, held her in my arms, and kissed her. It was a long kiss. We lived out a life together in that kiss: we...

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

There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel, Didier once said to me, when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.

When the heart has its moment of truth & sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.

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

There is another reality, beyond what we see with our eyes. You have to feel your way into that reality with your heart. There is no other way.

When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn’t be of our making, but that wouldn’t occur without our action. Some of the w...

When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn’t be of our making, but that wouldn’t occur without our action.

None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn’t enough.

When you know you’re going to die, there’s no comfort in cleverness. Genius is vain, and cleverness is hollow, at the end. The

Non so cosa mi spaventa di più: il potere che ci schiaccia o la nostra infinita capacità di sopportarlo.

He'd been able to deal with that pain because he'd accepted his own part in causing it

You can only ever be yourself. The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.

People say that money is the root of all evil,’ Khaled told me when we met in his apartment. His English was rich with accents of New York and Arabic and the Hindi that he spoke reasonably well. ‘But...

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.

A dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.

The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men - it is what they do, or re...

If you get paid in money, somebody, somewhere, is suffering for it.

Because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done...