He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

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 busy life is filled with tremendous emptiness.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

Real Buddhism is about meditation.

Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?

I'll teach you to kick me...' You don't need to teach me--I already know how!

I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.

One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.

Sufre mas el que espera siempre que aquel que nunca espero a nadie? Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who’s never waited for anyone?