The have influence, but no power.""In my experience, influence is power.

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.

Creation is always an act of affirmation, a lust for life or activity, a restlessness accompanied by art. That art is what pleases and invigorates and mystifies me.

By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

I've always feel like it's been my place to offer an alternative.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.

If you want to see why President Obama is worried this November, watch The Hope and the Change.

There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

I told her they must all be sold out.