The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.

He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.