“why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most”

“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.”

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being”

“Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love”

“The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.”

“The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.”