If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.
Orson Scott CardIndividual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.โ โThatโs a lie.โ โNo. Itโs just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.
Orson Scott CardI carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.
Orson Scott CardLove is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you
Orson Scott CardPeace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when he was very young. ... The kiss, the word, the peace were with him still. I am only what I remember, and Alai is my friend in a memory so intense that they can't tear him out. Like Valentine, the strongest memory of all.
Orson Scott Card