I'm not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me.

The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.

Fear of failure leads to failure.

I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

"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."

The visible is always a mirror of the invisible. The reality is imagined before it manifests itself.

Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.