We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

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.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

"We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."

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.