3,188 Quotes by Paulo Coelho

Two of the hardest decisions in life: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.

In war, the key to victory is the ability to surprise one's opponent.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.

That's who I am, a man who has been both good and evil throughout his life. pg 14

I lost the most precious thing a man can have: my faith in my fellow man. I laughed and I wept at God's irony, at the absurd way he had chosen to demonstrate to me that I was an instrument of Good and Evil.

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.

...she was betting on the fact that people were basically good, despite all the Evil in the world.

But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you’re fighting for

Making a decision is only the beginning of things