Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.