I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.

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.

Making the effort to experience daily joys a powerful mood enhancer. Find your bliss today!

When you're in the middle of your depression, pay good attention to it, because, tended carefully, you never know where it might lead you.

Folly is a child of power.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

I am sweet, I am ugly, I am mean if you love me. I'll try hard just to please you, when I say I don't need you.