The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

"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."

Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

A Warrior knows when a battle is worth fighting.

Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed