We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,

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.

Just love others for what they are and not what you want them to be.

Like a caring motherholding and guarding the lifeof her only child, so with a boundless heartof lovingkindness, hold yourself and all beingsas your beloved children.

I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

Love letters are supposed to be private. [Eva Braun] was very secretive about all that.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

At that point Ms Fox came in and said, "Hello, carry on as if I am not here." Then she lay down on the floor.