If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

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.

Don’t panic, but pray!

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

I looked to the window. Patch was gone, but a single black feather was pressed to the outer pane, held in place by last night's rain. Or Angel Magic

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.

If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".

If someone is choosing between joining McKinsey or your startup it's very unlikely they're going to work out at the startup.