It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.
Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?
In my experience, influence is power.
If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.
I suppose this means you can swim after all. Or am I supposed to tow you?If you really try, said Loaf, grinning, you might not die.
I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.
He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.
He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command, said Citizen.Oh my, said Rigg. They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?
Ender was a destroyer, but what he destroyed was illusion, and the illusion had to die...the truth about ourselves. Somehow this ancient man is able to see the truth and it doesn't blind his eyes or d...
The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
Someone's senta loving notein lines of returning geeseand as the moon fillsmy western chamberas petals danceover the flowing streamagain I think of youthe two of usliving a sadnessaparta hurt that can...
Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.
You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor, the Bishop reminded him. With a smile.The Speaker's smile was just as chilly. And you're the one who told the people I was Satan and they shouldn...
You underestimate yourself.
You have to think ahead, the next move, the next move, the next move, to see where it's all going to lead.
You can't rule out the impossible, because you never know which of your assumptions about what was possible might turn out, in the real universe, to be false.
You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.
When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating 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...
The strangest thing about humans is the way they pair up, males and females. Constantly at war with each other, never content to leave each other alone. They never seem to grasp the idea that males an...