1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?""I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?""Yes," she said."That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

I see Ender in you looking out at me. You see Ender in me looking out at you. And yet not one of us is truly him; we are each our own self, all of us strangers on our own road.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

Inside us there is a place that is our true self.

When you don't understand the consequences for your acts, how can you be blamed for them?

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

Power comes only by persuasion; by love and service. It comes from trying and learning.