Quotes from Paulo Coelho

I don't go to parties in general.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

I am a Catholic.

A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability

Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny

I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.

Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life.

Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).

But he knows that no man is an island.

Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.

Love perseveres. It's men who change.

I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.

Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.

You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.

A man only has a soul to be won or lost.

To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

Even if you slept with every man on Earth, my love will still survive.

a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah

I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.