As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

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.

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

I don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?

I realised nothing was permanently broken, I needed to take control and make changes.

We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

I missed 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games and missed the shot to win the game 26 times.

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure?

I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.

A fantabulous night to make romance.