So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.

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.

Science isn't just about blowing things up. Rather it's about blowing things up and knowing how you did it.

We were created to live a life of prayer.

However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland.

Patriotism alone is not enough.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

I think the death penalty's easier than life in prison.

I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.

I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots.

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.