As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

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

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.

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.

If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness.

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.

Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Thought is borne of failure.

This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.