Paulo Coelho

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

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.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

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

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

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

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

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.

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

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.

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

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

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

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

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

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.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

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

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.