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

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.