People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

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

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.