A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

When you really know someone, you can't hate him.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

"We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."