None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

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.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

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

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.