That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

Madness, and then illumination.

The only way to learn is by changing your mind.

Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees - knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.

The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals.

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.