Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word we came to his lips much more easily than I.

Sulking about your mistakes only leads to future ones.

Spit on your own and you can't do anything, but if you all spit together you can drown the bastards

Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

Jesus is magic, because he turned water into wine. I think he made the statue of liberty disappear in the 80s or something.

I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.