To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

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.

You need to have the means to impose yourself

It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.

I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.

We'll have 130 million phone devices that have Flash by the end of the year.