Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.

People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.

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

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