Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.

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.

You're a free man, act like it.

But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of which, it is sometimes sensed, the direction is inevitable.

The bar is masculine, and women must adopt traditionally masculine characteristics – cultivated insensitivity, goal-orientated thinking, the prioritising of the material – to compete.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

Success is a worn down pencil.