A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

— Gregory David Roberts

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

— Gregory David Roberts

And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.

— Gregory David Roberts

And if you did this, if you saved your mother from this vicious killer, would you be doing the wrong thing or the right thing?"" The right thing," I said just as swiftly." No, Lin, I'm afraid not," he frowned. "We have just seen that in the terms of this new, objective definition of good and evil, killing is always wrong because, if everyone did it, we would not move toward God, the ultimate complexity, with the rest of the universe. So it is wrong to kill. But your reasons were good. So, the truth of this decision is that you did the wrong thing, for the right reasons ...

— Gregory David Roberts

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

— Gregory David Roberts

A strong man can make his own luck.

— Gregory David Roberts

A wise man once told me- he’s a Muslim by the way-that he has more in common with a Jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or a Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a ration, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion

— Gregory David Roberts

But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a baby, she gives it water, inside her body, to grow in. That water inside her body is almost exactly the same as the water of the sea. It is salty, by just the same amount. She makes a little ocean, in her body. And not only this. Our blood and our sweating, they are both salty, almost exactly like the water from the sea is salty. We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

— Gregory David Roberts

Fanaticism is the opposite of love. A wise man once told me - he's a Muslim, by the way - that he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Jew than he does with a fanatic from his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion.

— Gregory David Roberts

Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.

— Gregory David Roberts