Maybe that's who you are, what you remember.

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.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.

I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

My first Mongolia trip made me look at the world differently

If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

You also really want to take the time to think about how the market is going to evolve.You need a market that's going to be big in 10 years.

Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.