"I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now."
"Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart."
"Isn't wine prohibited here?"the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil,"said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is."
"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."
"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer."
"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."