You own nothing?
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.
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...
We're an ecological disaster.Exactly, said the expendable.
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home
Saving the human race is a frantic one. Or a tedious one. It all depends on what stage of the process you're taking part in.
Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own.~Val
Not many people are enemies to anyone. But the ones full of greed or hate, pride or fear—their passion is strong enough to lever all the world into war.
Never mock a tender heart.
Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you
It's not enough just to laugh at good fortune and say, 'Enough already.' You have to really mean it -- that you have enough. And because you mean it, you take the surplus and you give it away. Similar...
It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.
Isolation is the optimum environment for creativity.
Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?
If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine.And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.
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.
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.
He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.