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

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

What am I now, Alai?" "Still good." "At what?" "At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe." "I don't want to go to the end of the universe." "So where do you want to go? They'll follow you." I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.

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.

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.