Paulo Coelho

"I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success."

"The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we're used to living in a different way.Finally we discover, to our surprise, that God wants us to be happy, because He is the Father."

"Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly."

"Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life."

"Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds."

"Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth."

"Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are all able to know everything, because it's all written there."

"You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life."

"The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, 'Oh, the book is better."

"I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body."

"To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

"I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things."