You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.

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.

God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.

Amazing life, a joyful journey.

Self-confidence is not a fixed way of being. People are not born with certain levels of self-confidence, it can be acquired, and it can be lost.

I'm happiest with my family around me.

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.

If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.

One thing I can't stand is late kidnappers.

There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.