1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant.

Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.

If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?

The thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.

Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be to people who didn't understand them, they were every bit as inscrutable.

Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.

There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.

Everyone is naked. Everyone wants to hide. But life is sweet. Let it go on.