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 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.

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.

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).

I fall asleep with the sound of rain

None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us.

Salvation is not just repairing the original self. It is a new self created of God in righteousness and true holiness.

Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Questions can be more dangerous than swords.

If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.

I've become a much more serious young insect.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?