Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals.

You have to measure your success by the way your audience responds to your games. No matter how small that audience is, it's yours. Your game is part of the lives and the memories of those people in a way that WordPerfect or Lotus 1-2-3 or Windows can never be.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.