You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.

Let's fly away and live forever

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

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

Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?