So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.

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.

The greatest life is the joy of contentment.

If you want to be educated and wise, you must open your heart, expand your mind, be accepting and ready to change.

The first degree of humility is prompt obedience.

I know everything about candy. Would you believe I even know where to find gumballs in the middle of Africa?

To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

Everyone pretty much acknowledges that he's the man, and I still feel that underrates him.

My fitness routine includes things that are not stressful on my body - swimming, yoga, stretching, and rebounding.

I always get up for every game, but this game is especially big. It's a do-or-die thing. This could be (decide) whoever wins the regular-season championship.

If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'