When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.

But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

Once you get a brother, you don’t give him up easy.

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.