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.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

"We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."

Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Let's fly away and live forever