Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of...

We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world,...

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.'Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

I'm not stupid! In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and...

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to...

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another...

Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future....

It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really...

The enemy gate is down.