Quotes by Paulo Coelho

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.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

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

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.