Most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemy's stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

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

Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.

Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.