"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."
"No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it."
"When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises."
"Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey."
"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
"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."