Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.

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.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

In philanthropy, you have to take the attitude of a mother... You have to be patient, and we have been very patient for a long time.

Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid.

For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

The world's deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts.

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.

People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.

My mind moves very fast. I go through a lot of moods and emotions.

I kind of look at my modeling career and the Alfred Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.