I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.

War is an option of difficulties.

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

What, do they run already? Then I die happy.

There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

I'm hoping that Penn State will one day be able to find a cure for cancer. Being a part of THON means I'm doing my part to find that cure.

Now God be praised, I will die in peace.

Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

No one had ever given me any idea on how to handle it when the right one came along, but you weren't the right one for him.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Having a baby can be a scream.

'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.