• "Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth." - Ender Wiggin

• "Fairness is a wonderful attribute, Major Anderson. It has nothing to do with war." - Colonel Graff

• "The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you." - Ender Wiggin

• "He was a soldier, and if anyone had asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he wouldn't have known what they meant." - Bean

• "After all this [war] is over, the civilians can rake over our files and decide what was right and what was not. Give us medals where they think we were right, take away our pensions and put us in jail where they decide we were wrong." - Colonel Anderson (?)

• "In my experience, influence is power."

• "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." - Mazer Rackham to Ender

• "If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault. You killed us all." - Valentine Wiggin to Ender Wiggin

• "Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth." - Valentine Wiggin to Ender Wiggin

• "I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it." - Ender Wiggin to Valentine Wiggin

• "Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be." - Valentine Wiggin

• "I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves." - Ender Wiggin

• "Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won?" - Mazer Rackham to Ender Wiggin

• "There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will ever tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on, I am your teacher." - Mazer Rackham to Ender Wiggin