Why do we have to listen to our hearts?” the boy asked, when they had made camp that day. “Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure.” “But my heart is agitated,” the boy said. “It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it’s become passionate over a woman of the dessert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights when I’m thinking about her.” “Well, that’s good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use the energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.

Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles.

The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.

Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.