Quotes By Paulo Coelho

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.

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

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

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

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

I'm not a person that socializes very well.

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.

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

I am a Catholic.

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

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.

I don't try to control my days.

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

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

MySpace is an addiction.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

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

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

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

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.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.