I am a creature of chemicals.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us. Blossom, trees; ripen, fields; be warm for them, suns; be fertile for them, planets: they are our adopted daughters, and they have come home.