When you really know someone, you can't hate him..

Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart..

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited..

I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you ….

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief..

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world..

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading..

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do..

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind..

When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had bot….

Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu….

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now..

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes..

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him..

The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it….

Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too….

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.….

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going..

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians..

Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. An….

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time wit….