When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.

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 have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.

When you worry your face will frown, that will bring everybody down, so don't worry BE HAPPY!:)

Your task is not to judge or punish. Karma will take care of that. Your task is to love.

You need to sweat yourself. Don't sweat nobody else.

I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself.