You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

— Paulo Coelho

You don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,

— Paulo Coelho

You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Village?

— Paulo Coelho

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

— Paulo Coelho

You must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. Always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure if you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb, and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.

— Paulo Coelho

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love.

— Paulo Coelho

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love… the love that speaks the Language of the World.

— Paulo Coelho

Your answer is the logical, coherent answer an absolutely normal person would give: It's a tie! A lunatic, however, would say that what I have around my neck is a ridiculous, useless bit of colored cloth tied in a very complicated way, which makes it harder to get air into your lungs and difficult to turn your neck. I have to be careful when I'm anywhere near a fan, or I could be strangled by this bit of cloth. If a lunatic were to ask me what this tie is for, I would have to say, absolutely nothing. It's not even purely decorative, since nowadays, it's become a symbol of slavery, power, aloofness. The only really useful function a tie serves is the sense of relief when you get home and take it off; you feel as if you've freed yourself from something, though quite what you don't know.

— Paulo Coelho

You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

— Paulo Coelho

You're not trying to find the answer to a question, you're simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe: that everyone is evil.

— Paulo Coelho