Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

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.

What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.

He manages a sad smile. “An omission is not the same thing as a lie, Miss Bishop. It’s a manipulation.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

You can't make people stop loving each other just because a law says it's wrong.

Search is an unsolved problem.

I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.

Soccer just couldn't satisfy my thirst for watching violence up close.

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.