"Speaker for the Dead" Quotes

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

The only way to deal with a lie is to tell the truth, once and for all.

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

The worth of a culture is not measured by its accomplishments, but in how those accomplishments are used.

The most important thing we can take from this life is the love of our people, our family.

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.

When you really know somebody you can't hate them. Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them.

The universe is not made of atoms. It's made of tiny stories.