Orson Scott Card (Narrator)

"Kneel down. The speaker's knees were trembling. Ender knelt."

"The battle room is a place of truth."

"Compassion is a word that describes the situation of watching someone who is important to you suffer."

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."

"Ender's Game is designed to make commanders killers."

"He was ten years old when we recruited him for the Battle School."

"They were not using him—he was using them."

"The children were soldiers."

"When you can go faster than light, you can go back in time."

"He understood warfare intuitively."

"The adults were playing with children."

"He was better than all of them, and he knew it."

"This is the place where they're creating the greatest military mind of all time."

"He is too much a weapon now. He has been shaped into a tool of war."

"Ender's Game is played seriously by children in order to prepare them for leadership, but it is also played with a kind of abandon."

"Most of the commanders were stronger than Ender. But Ender knew how to think."

"Control is the game, and the game is what we do here."

"A child's body is the only weapon needed."

"Adults are the ones who can suspend their disbelief without reservation."

"We are the only race that wages war against ourselves."

"The difference between a hero and a villain is perspective."

"A boy's game becomes humanity's war."

"Fear is the weapon of the enemy"

"Compassion can be a weapon in itself"

"We are all fighting a war within ourselves"

"The isolation of command is absolute"

"Wars are not won by weapons. They're won by the side that understands the other side better."

"I am not what I seem. None of us are. We are all prisoners of our circumstances."

"Isolation is the privilege of the strong. The weak are always desperate for connection."

"The mind of a child is like a mirror - it reflects the world around it without judgment."