They 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.

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

You have to maintain integrity at all times during your life.

People only buy when they're ready to buy. Not when you're ready to sell

I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

You have to be disciplined because if you lose your discipline and lose your shape, we're playing against better players, so they'll take advantage.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

The worst time to take a survey is in the middle of a cataclysmic event.