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.

Either she was a perfect actress or she was oblivious.

All those months when bean refused to see Ender, hid from him, it was because he couldn't bear to face the fact that Ender was what bean only wished to be - th…

He knows how to form a group into the shape he wants it to have. He knows how to get people to work together. And he does it by the most minimal means possible

Where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild; Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones; Whose table earth -…

Ladies and gentlemen, I came here to avoid as much as possible treading on your corns. I had intended to deal only with the basic issue of economics that dicta…

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.