Quotes from Orson Scott Card

As far as the rest of the biosphere is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But

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

He pulled out a single half-blackened disc of bronze. Money, he said. You get it by working, and then you trade it for things you want. But it's so small, said Runnel. So's your wit, said the man, and turned away.

When the people elected a president like this one, who ran a campaign like the one he ran, it was hard to imagine what kind of scandal might bring him down.

Five chickens do not make a cow.

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

No, the hurts of the mind were too strange, too invisible, too magical to hope for the same kind of tolerance and help from even the best of people. It frightens me, thought DeAnne. Why should I expect others to be better than I am?

Sólo hay una cosa que hará que dejen de odiarte. Y esa cosa es ser tan bueno en todo lo que hagas que no puedan ignorarte. Les he dicho que eres el mejor. ¡Mejor que lo seas!

Maybe that's who you are, what you remember.

We are the beasts that scheme, the predators that predict. We live by the lie, not by the truth; we study the truth only to shape more convincing lies that will bend other people to our will.

As for Peter – we didn't even suggest a meeting, and so he didn't have a chance to tell us to go to hell.

Now that she knew credit cards were valuable, Baba Yaga began to collect as many of them as she could.

The task of the tyrant is not to compel, but to persuade even the unwilling that compliance better serves their interest than resistance.

That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings.

So, the whole war is because we can't talk to each other. If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

Until you know that you're tougher than the enemy, you maneuver, you don't commit to battle.

Too proud to change your name in exchange for a job. Not proud, sir, said Runnel. But Runnel of Farzibeck won't die here to have a waterless coward rise in his place.

The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilled enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

My husband is a good man, she said. It's important to him to be a good man. He has to not only be good, he has to believe that he's good. In the eyes of God, in my eyes, in his parents' eyes, in his own eyes. Good.

Every day all people judge all other people. The question is whether we judge wisely.

I've had enough adventures," said Noxon, "to know that boredom is the closest thing to happiness. Boredom means that there's nothing wrong. You're not hungry, you're not in pain. Nobody's making any demands on you. Your mind is free to think whatever you want. The only thing that makes boredom unpleasant is if you're impatient for something else to happen.

I want to understand everything, said Miro. I want to know everything and put it all together to see what it means. Excellent project, she said. It will look very good on your résumé.

you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

It is astonishing what can be done when people are truly loyal to each other and eager to meet each other's needs.