I am a creature of chemicals.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.

In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.

If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves.

. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.