No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

Let's fly away and live forever