When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

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.

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

We live with the scars we choose.

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

Deep down, she's a good person, Diana is," Caine said, and sighed. "Deep down, I'm not. But she is.

I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

All front-line combat jobs in the infantry, special operations units and elsewhere are now open to women.