But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.

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.

Every day I make a choice to bring my own sunshine.

You know you have arrived when you have stopped caring about the destination

I love the relays. Track is such an individual sport, so it's fun to do something together.

Those moments in your life when you feel absolute exhilaration are moments of complete alignment with the Source within you.

Howie's doctor told him to lose ten pounds, and since Howie's been on a diet he's gained three.

Connoisseurs think the art is already done.

On the day a country decides not to invest a cent in innovation, discovery or exploration, that country decides to be a tributary to others.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

Movies don't create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative.

The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.