Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.
Every Man has the Right to make a Kite from his Pants.
Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other...
He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.
Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that...
Remember, the enemy's gate is down.
I've long seen failure as a tool, not an outcome.
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous...
A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.
it seemed like a great adventure, at least at the start.
I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important...
When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to...
I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
The garden was still asleep. I caught it unawares. A garden that hasn't yet begun to think about people. Beautiful.
Can you tell me anything? It's a bioengineering firm. Bioengineering, Barney said. Well, there's the obvious … Which is? A DNA molecule. Oh, come on, Nedry said. Nobody could be analyzing a DNA...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.
The middle of the night fell, and silence prevailed, and the silence covered the houses and the roads, and the lights of the faded lamps spread, as if to comfort the desolation of the trees planted in...
you did not look for a winner who would take everything; you found a way of allowing people to save face; you found a way of healing rather than imposing.
Being loved and admired by a man like that-and she knew that this man, this mechanic, this fixer of machines with their broken hearts, did indeed love and admire her-was like walking in the sunshine;...
Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world.
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business....
I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!
Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?
SPACES... BREAKS...TO CONTEMPLATE THINGS... TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT...
You can't hold on to water or keep it from leaking away.
Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of all revolutions. Without it, justice seems inconceivable to the rebel's mind. There comes a time,...
The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.
So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be...
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but...
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them,...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
