Book: Shantaram

- Yes, they can be called love songs, but these are the best and most true of love songs, because they express love for God.

There is an old Persian saying: "The lion should roar from time to time to remind the horse of his fear."

In India, sometimes you have to give in to get what you want.

- I'm afraid not. I have too much of the devil in me.

... The beauty of this place was for me something like an angel that a person sees in the sleeping face of a beloved woman.

These newyorican moments of our lives remain with us, hidden in the most secluded corner of the heart where love comes crawling to die like slaughtered in the dead of the thicket. There is only our pride allows herself to cry.

Stupid is the military and police, on which rests the power of the villains. They serve in the armies of the twelve leading States of the world and the police of the same States and two dozen countries. Of these, only ten million possess a valid force to be reckoned with. Of course, they're brave, but are stupid because they sacrifice their life for governments and political movements that use them for their own purposes, as pawns. The government eventually always betray them, leave in the lurch and destroy. Anyone nation can not do such a shameful neglect, as from the heroes of the war.

I was young and did not understand that the dead lovers are the most dangerous rivals.

I don't know what scares me more, she said. The outrage that is happening with people, or what they take it for granted.

Yes, of course, God is impossible, and this is the first evidence that it exists.

Kadarbhai of those who creates the future [...]. Most people - and we're [...] - just waiting for the future to come. But Abdel Qader Khan first dreams about the future, then plans it, and then builds according to plan. This is the difference between him and everyone else.

Whatever you do in life, do it without losing courage, and you don't do too many bad...

The deepest wounds leave the world, not war.

Life is a property of all things.