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. – Paulo Coelho
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. – Paulo Coelho
Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way. – Paulo Coelho
Every day we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. – Paulo Coelho
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. – Thomas A. Edison