The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing to pay any personal cost for the good of those who need them.

We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders.

Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter.

I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable.

We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shore.

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, at least a little, from their sins.