Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

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.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I didn't find out from my mother

Living life is my greatest miracle.

Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.

I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.

Out of the dragon's claws and into the fire, there's a moment in every man's life when he must decide what is wrong and what is right.

I know the community mostly for its art and culture... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants." "They make you feel like taking off your shoes... it feels like home.

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.

If you truthfully can say without a doubt within your heart Dear Lord, Thy will be done, and God knows best!

As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.