Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

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.

I decree and I declare that I am not a raw material but rather a finished product. God knows me and knows the reason for which he created me. I am not here on earth to merely live and depart.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too!

It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of.

Her bra was cotton and white and, bless its little frickin´ heart, had a front clasp.

What Donald Trump knows is that people across this country and indeed world are afraid of terrorism, and they have a reason to.

You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!

Do not take hold of a past that no longer serves you, but embrace the stillness that is right now.

You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.

I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them