Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

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 man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

You became moon dust in my soul, I couldn't quite brush you away because somehow you always returned to haunt my heart.

Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.

You do not become a leader because people follow you. Rather, people tend to follow you because you have leadership qualities. The journey of leadership often starts alone.

I thought i had been educated well enough until i left college.

The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book.

Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.

The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.

All manifestation of fear is a reflection of the fact that humanity has forgotten its spiritual identity. In beginning to remember it, we put fear on notice that its days are numbered.

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).