As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

I have too many secrets. For all these years I've been a speaker for the dead, uncovering secrets and helping people to live in the light of truth. Now I no longer tell anyone half of what I know, because if I told the whole truth there would be fear, hatred, brutality, murder, war.

Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees - knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.