Quotes from Orson Scott Card

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.

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

You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.

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

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

In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.