The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.

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

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.

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.