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

So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.

You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you're doing an excellent job with me. Congratulations. Now when are you going to put me up against a good army?

This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?