The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

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.

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.

Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.