We must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect from our lives.

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long for me to write this book?" Because my dream, since I was 10 years old, was to be a writer. I said, I have to revisit my life using a metaphor, and the metaphor was basically this boy that has a dream and has to go far away to realize that his dream is close to him.

Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.

Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.