Paulo Coelho

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

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

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.

A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery.

We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.

Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move.