Quotes By Paulo Coelho

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

I'm not a person that socializes very well.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

I am a Catholic.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

I don't try to control my days.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

MySpace is an addiction.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.