Everything we do means something.

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.

Take God at His Word – because winning the battle doesn't requirephysical brawn, but spiritual brains!

with each measured step, we knowthis earth is only as solidas we are.

Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.

Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

The light is reached not by turning back from the darkness, but by going through it.

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

If I got a chance to take one percent of the deal either way, I would make that bet.