I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

The Road to Santiago is the road of ordinary people.

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

Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.

Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.

But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn. We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket's weight and warmth. The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy.

If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.