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.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

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 wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

I don’t want to hear it. Go back to Sammy and get your platter of gonorrhea with a heaping side order of chlamydia. It’s free. Please leave.

All the beatitudes manifest in the sacred-time.

As she gobbled up the miles, big ravines appeared before her, their starving mouths open for the swallow.

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

Great businessmen are creators.

A Christian is never dependent on the response of others to grow spiritually. It's our own heart's decisions that matter

Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her alight.

The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.

By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.