Gregory David Roberts Quotes

'Breathless' was an important milestone in my life.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

Having children was a revelation - it's like going through a doorway, and everything is different forever.

One small decision, for me to get on a flight from Finland to the U.K. - I had no idea how that one small thing could just change my whole life forever.

I'm not here if Bill Hunter never forced my hand in wrestling. It was a pivotal point in my life.

I'll remember my life as pre-'Lady Bird' and post-'Lady Bird.'

I was at the crossroads of my life when I was 7 years old.

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in the chest, all the breath knocked out, and one knows, absolutely knows without the merest hint of a shadow of a doubt that one's life will never be the same.

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life.

At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

I was doing the wrong thing, at the time I thought I was doing the right thing. It's like if you're dealing with somebody who is high on drugs, they can look back at it and say, "Wow, I was destroying myself." But during the period, they think they're doing the right thing. You just have to let the smoke clear so you can see the whole picture.

You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

Everyone's got a moment or two in their life where something happens and you make a decision and then your entire life changes.

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.

Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough.

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.