Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

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.

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.

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

I know much less about why God allows people to suffer than I know that He Himself is a suffering God.

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.

You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet.

It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be alive.