When you find your way you cannot be scared. You need to be brave enough to take wrong steps. The deceptions, failures, lack of enthusiasm, are tools that God places in our way to reveal the path.

The great blessing of life is the existence of tomorrows - and having dreams to realize.

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.

I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.

When seen up close, dangers are controllable: when you begin to climb the mountain of your dreams, pay attention to the surroundings. There are cliffs, of course. There are almost imperceptible cracks in the mountain rock. There are stones so polished by storms that they have become as slippery as ice. But if you know where you are placing each footstep, you will notice the traps and how to get around them.

It is not the life that matters, but the journey.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.