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.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.

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