Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

he gave up the idea that there is a better place somewhere else. There is no better place than this, not in this world. And it is by the place we've got, and our love for it and our keeping of it, that this world is joined to Heaven.

Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?

Book of Life says, "Where your heart is, there your treasure is also."

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart.

That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart, the alchemist had told him.

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him. [...] We, people hearts, seldom say much about these treasures, because people no longer want to go in search of them. We speak of them only to children. Later we simple let life proceed, in its own direction, toward its own path laid out for them — the path to their destinies, and to happiness. Most people see the world as a threatening place, and because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place. p.125

When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. But now I'm sad and alone. I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me. I'm going to hate those who have found their treasure because I never found mine. And I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world.