Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

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.

You can’t possibly be afraid of trees.

Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself.

Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.

It is hard to tell your mother to change her life.