Paulo Coelho

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Impossible is just an opinion.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

He that has more knowledge than judgment, is made for another man’s use more than his own.

The more experiments you make the better.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.

Wake up, you’ve been sleeping. Take up your bed and walk. Stop blaming other people. Oh, it’s nobody else’s fault.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Nature… She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.