We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.

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

That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and whatever the stakes were, they would find a way to act as they needed to act. … Intelligence and education, which all these children had, apparently didn't make any important difference in human nature.

Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association

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

If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.