An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

As a class, Jews give three times as much money to charity as anybody else, but they feel guilty about their wealth anyway. They simply can't accept the idea of ever being Republicans.

You can't come to a new point of view until you realize what your brainwashing has been.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

"You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You really have to learn.