When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.