More quotes by Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

"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."
"Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?"So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive."
"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."
"Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present"."
"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."