Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.

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.

Feed your self-esteem

It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

Your life is too big of a celebration to dare to permit anyone or anything to ruin it.

I've been proud to be national champion.

A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it's released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very strange days we live in.

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the Lord of the Rings films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear...but because of your love.

You get a lot farther in life without drugs.

i can nourish myself on nothing but truth