Paulo Coelho

Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.

Don’t waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear.

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

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

When you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

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

I hate to be smart.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

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.

I don't go to parties in general.

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

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives, but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

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

I never say I am a guru.

I'm not a person that socializes very well.

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

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy and so I can communicate with the whole world.

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

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.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

I don't try to control my days.

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

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.

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

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.

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

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day - my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer you do understand me also. We are in the same level.