Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

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.

The wealth of time is the only wealth that is more valuable than human resources.

there is no action kind enough to express heartbreak. I am left shut, the quietest of blossoms.

Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?

The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans arrive, invade, occupy.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.