Love is random; fear is inevitable.

Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

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

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.