Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

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

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. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?