Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.

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.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

Everything is possible in America, except the production of intelligence.

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

I was connected to God like that, and because he was there, I was connected to the whole of his creation.

Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers.

Everyone thinks I'm this jock of a woman, but I didn't play any sports. I didn't even let my kids play baseball because I was afraid they were going to get hit by balls.

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

Within the Gospel of Jesus Christ there is room and place for every truth thus far learned by man or yet to be made known.