Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

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.

She may not be like everyone else, but neither am I.

It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.

You will never choose love greater than what you believe you deserve and what other insecure people tell your lack of self esteem to have faith in.

Awards and ceremonies are all an applause of discipline.

The interests of childhood and youth are the interests of mankind.

Obviously there was no point in being a bachelor if his houseman was going to filch his booze. If he was going to get robbed, he might just as well get married.

Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.

Better to have something to say than to have to say something.

I'm not really the party person. I don't "become myself" once I'm drunk. I don't use alcohol to be happy.

One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.