Book: Shantaram. Page 1

The man needs to find a good woman and to win her love. And then to earn her respect. And then to cherish her trust.

Little man one who hates others, and the big - one who loves.

When the woman is right, nothing to argue.

Love is good, like friendship, loyalty, honesty, freedom.

Not money begets evil and evil begets money.

There is nothing softer and nicer to touch than the skin on women's thighs.

... suffering is always associated with the loss. In youth we think that the suffering we cause others, but with age when some of the steel doors slammed shut behind us, we understand that the present suffering is to realize that you're irrevocably lost something.

No matter what we do, even with the best intentions, we break the natural course of things and run the risk of incurring some misfortune which would not have happened without our intervention. I remembered the words of Carla that evil is generated through the efforts of people to change things for the better.

Why is it so easy hardens the human heart?

For him friendship was measured by what people are doing and that are willing to make for a friend, and not the joys that I share with him.

You can't let his friend die like that - alone with fate and death.

Love a man who can't forgive - this is not good.
Even worse to love a man who can't get...

Poverty and pride are inseparable accompany each other until one of them kills the other.

The end mirrored the beginning. In the end remember the woman hometown.