A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

When you are imprisoned by the rules of conformity, it tames your imaginative capacity and steals your free thinking abilities.

Show me a church's songs and I'll show you their theology.

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.

You can’t go through life not listening to music.

If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

Now is the dwelling place of God himself.