It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

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.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

We are hell different but vanity keeps us stuck.

Taking a solemn oath and sticking to it casts everything in a different light and infuses the ordinary with significance. It can change a person more radically than any drug or many years of therapy.

The good go for the better to come.

My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.

Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge

I would really love to go to Thailand as so many people have told me how wonderful it is.

I'm single because I move about so much that I can't really get attached.

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.