There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

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.

We are the masters of our reality.

God has greater things in stock for us, but unless our great things are given away, we can't receive our greater things. Give big and you'll receive bigger!

. . . there was no possible way to deny that this girl probably felt emotions much deeper than most other people. If anyone was human, she was.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.

There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.

The gods hate unjust men.

We celebrate the First Advent to whet our appetites for the Second. We long for the next coming.

It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat." "Did she just call you tree rat?