Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.
Orson Scott CardThe Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life. But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong — for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.
Orson Scott CardIf you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.
Orson Scott CardAnd yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.
Orson Scott Card