If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.
Orson Scott CardIf you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.
Orson Scott CardGood people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.
Orson Scott CardIt is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.
Orson Scott CardThat night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third.
Orson Scott Card