Quotes by Paulo Coelho

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

Impossible is just an opinion.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.