"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."
"When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."
"When you want something, he entire universe conspires to help you achieve it."
"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."
"to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world."
"Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth."