When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way to ourselves.

I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.

The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.

We can't own each other's past. The questioin is whether we have a future together.