If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.