I would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. I would see as those eyes see.

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.

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.

God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

Reading was artificial borrowed life, benefiting from ideas and sensations transmitted cerebrally, acquiring the treasures of human truth by purchase or swindle, not by work.

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.

Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware.

Integrity safeguards love, and love makes family life rich and zestful-now and forever.