"Life? Don't talk to me about life!"

"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously."

"There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

"Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated."

"Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty."

"Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest."

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

"Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you."

"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. (Dort, wo man B??cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen)"