It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Believing that you can be sure of everything you've achieved.

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

You can only learn when you teach.

Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted.

Why don’t people’s hearts tell them to continue following their dreams?” the boy asked the alchemist. “Because that’s what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don’t like to suffer." From then on, the boy understood his heart. He asked it, please, never to stop speaking to him. He asked that, when he wandered far from his dreams, his heart press him and sound the alarm. The boy swore that, every time he heard the alarm, he would heed its message.

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.