1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

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

Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.