Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you

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.

To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.

There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none.

It was an instant weight lifted off my chest - both literally and figuratively.

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic

I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.

I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.

Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.