Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take it from you.

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.

people don't get meit's more rule than exceptionGod bless exceptions

Society's collective fear of love must be faced if we are to lay claim to a love ethic that can inspire us and give us the courage to make necessary changes.

There was a silence. Elliot was surprised, because he would have thought the sound of every atom in his body exploding with indignation might make some noise.

We are what our thoughts have made us so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live they travel far.

Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.

There's people that like you and there's people that don't like you. I love it because I love the negative criticism because I always feel I have something to prove.

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

UN is made even more complex by the constant interplay of politics and bureaucracy and can certainly be bewildering for a novice.

She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.

You don’t get off easy, you just get to finish faster!