Paulo Coelho

I don’t see why I should bother to look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.

Paulo Coelho

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

Paulo Coelho

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

Paulo Coelho

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

Paulo Coelho

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

Paulo Coelho

I start to think that I’m losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.

Paulo Coelho

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

Paulo Coelho

I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

Paulo Coelho

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

Paulo Coelho

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

Paulo Coelho