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.

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.

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

Painting reflects. It kills you in a colourful shower of emptiness. Flatness. Randomness. And beauty. Yes, it is the most pure beauty I have ever felt in my life.

Your beauty is yours, believe it. Do not rely on someone else to approve it.

At the end, nothing will matter except the love that you gave away.

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.

anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't.

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

Everyone knows I'm no treehugger

If you worshipped Muhammad, know that Muhammad is dead. But if you worshipped Allah, know that Allah never dies.