I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God." "Then who are you?" "The personnel officer who hired God.

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 materials are mostly from living beings - living human beings. They need to be alive to extract the necessary materials.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

Only in Jesus are we able to pray, and with Him we also know that we shall be heard.

The choices you've made in the past are the direct cause of all your unhappiness today.

No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean

We are losing our own capacity because we are poisoned in one way or another.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane.