1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

There is only try and try again, until you can persuade the world to work according to your new plan for it. ... Everything has a mind of its own and follows the laws it already understands.

Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

And that," said Bean, "is why losing is a much more powerful teacher than winning.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.

I want to see the king," I said, after explaining who I was."Wonderful," said the ancient Nkumai who sat on a cushion near the corner pole of the house. "I'm glad for you."That was all, and apparently he meant to say no more. "Why are you so glad?" I asked."Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant.

Only fools think that truth disappears when the boundaries of belief are crossed.

They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power.

The have influence, but no power.""In my experience, influence is power.