保罗·科埃略（Paulo Coelho，1947 – 至今，巴西著名作家）
People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.
人们非常不愿意谈论他们的私人生活，但是你上网时，会发现人们在网上会更加开放。
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
让我们绝对清楚一件事:我们绝不能混淆谦卑与虚假的谦虚或奴性。
The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.
暴风雨越猛烈，越快过去。
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success。
我认为对于失败你可以有一万个解释，但是对于成功却没有好的解释。
However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.
无论人们说自己多么幸福，但没有人会满足: 我们总是要和最漂亮的女人在一起，买更大的房子，换车，渴望我们没有的东西。
About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don’t believe in it. It’s something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
关于文化之间，文明之间冲突的观念，我不相信。这是一些政治领导人试图利用的东西，也是媒体正在试图向我们推销的东西，以简化这个世界和他们的工作。
Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
不要把时间浪费在解释上:人们只听他们想听的。
People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.
人们永远不会感到满足。如果他们有一点，他们想要更多。如果他们有很多，他们想要更多。一旦他们拥有更多，他们希望他们能拥有少而幸福，但是却没有能力对此做一点努力。
