No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships the same as the coupling between a man and a woman.

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

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

Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.