I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

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.

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

Loving someone unconditionally is the ultimate joy

The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude the consciousness of it.

Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down.

Praise day at night, and life at the end.

I would love having the job of president because I know how to do it. I know what the country needs.

We started with 53,000 people. Half are gone, but surprisingly, most are still here!

This card is sent to cheer you As you're confined to bed I'm sure it'll feel all worthwhile In the happier days ahead.

Whether it's right or wrong, fight for what you believe in.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.