Top 116 Quotes by Paulo Coelho

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

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

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

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

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

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

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

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.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

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.