You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.

All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.

But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

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

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

Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won?

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.