Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.

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.

Don’t fear to sing alone. If your song is right and melodies are touching, listeners will appear.

Trust can be broken in just a few seconds, but it takes years to heal

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire women will like him.

I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.

If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake.

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.