He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces to the floor and trace woodgrain lines for me, says one. Mine will sacrifice animals, says another. Mine will kill anyone who insults me, says a third. Here is the question I think of most often: "Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshippers obey my good laws, and treat each other kindly, and live simple generous lives?