But he held his tongue, because, in the back of his mind, in the deepest corner of his heart, he still had hope that Ender might do what could not be done.

Sometimes the other side is irresistibly strong, and then the only sensible course of action is to retreat in order to save your force to fight another day.

Yet throughout history, great victories had come as much because of the losing army's errors as because of the winner's brilliance in battle.

What you don't seem to understand is, sometimes you have to tell people the truth and ask them to do the thing you want, instead of trying to trick them into i…

Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rat…

'She prays to God most every night And though she swears he doesn't listen theres a little hope in her he might.'

I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning