1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

All education is self-education,” said Noxon. “And all self-education builds on the foundation provided by your teachers.

There are times when you have to defend yourself or someone else against relentless evil. And some of those times the only defense that has any hope of succeeding is a one-time use of brutal, devastating force. At such times good people act brutally.

I’ll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who’ll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

That’s how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don’t bother hardly getting to know each other at all.

The other boys started to complain that pushing off walls was movement, not combat. “There is no combat without movement,” Ender said.

I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

That is the Earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of the hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upward from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets and winds and birds. And the voice of one girl, who spoke to him out of his far-off childhood.

If there’s a problem, you fix it. You don’t set up fences around it and make rules about how it should be fixed. You fix it.

Five chickens do not make a cow.