From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.