Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

A good, true, intense love is not complete without madness.

To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.