When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

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

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.