"This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."

Tough times test your valor, persistence and ability to make decisions. They force you to fight for your dreams.

Only cowards hide behind silence.

making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.