You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.

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.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

My child will bear those scars forever, ” Tilv said angrily. “And if he isn’t a fool, perhaps your child will learn from them, ” Neferre returned calmly.

Quit pretending to be humble when you are really just a self-abusing, emotional, drama junkie.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils

She [Serena Williams] played some great shots, but so did I, and that was the only difference.

Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives.

When you are sad or in pain or sick or you witness any cremation then you actually learn the many truths of life.

Never read any book that is not a year old.