[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

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.

A modern culture built on the back of dying gods immerses me.

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and of humanity.

I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.

The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.

It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

We have never meddled in the domestic affairs of any state and we never will.