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.

Seek to live,remembrance is for the old.

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

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering s worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with Eternity.

Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

We are all pilgrims in search of the unknown.