"We don't always get the leader that we want," said Graff. "But sometimes we get to choose among the leaders… — Orson Scott Card

"Ignorance is not a tragedy," said Anton, "merely an opportunity. But to know and refuse to know what you know, that is foolishness."

"Am I the only one here who sees something of himself in the man who's lying in this box?"

You saved the world. All of humanity is your progeny. And yet... it is empty, isn't it? They didn't take it away from you the way they took my work from me. But time has taken it away. It's in the past, and yet you are still alive, so what is your life for?