Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Robertsis an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980 and fled to India, where he lived for ten years...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryAustralia
edge essence experience extreme life people
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.
people shantaram worst
Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.
lying fighting people
That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know how to fight and lie and cheat each other, and all the things that all of us do. But more than any other people in the world, the Indians know how to love one another.
country unique people
Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring to the world is something special and unique, which is the capacity for a loving interaction.
love-is opposites people
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.
powerful regret people
Powerful people have no regrets.
adventure worry people
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…
heart simple people
The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.
people shantaram
You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time
people shantaram praise
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.
thinking people looks
Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.
differences gossip people
You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.
heart possibility beats
every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.
running stupid men
The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.