You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.

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

What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.