I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

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.

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

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.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.

An entrepreneur is a leader of excellence, trailblazer and pioneer who constantly brings change to their generation.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.

We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.

You gotta score to put points on the board.

There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.

Flowers are almost perfect; their only flaw is that they are weak; they can't protect themselves against the evil!

I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.

Comics taught me how to write, and also patience and confidence.