Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

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.

A man in drink can be like a ravening wolf.

It helps if you don’t think of them as human. More than one officer has called this job pest control.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Work with integrity and succeed with integrity

One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.

The revolutionary simpleton is everywhere.

I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.

You get what you get when you get it.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.