Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no one would save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.