That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and whatever the stakes were, they would find a way to act as they needed to act. โฆ Intelligence and education, which all these children had, apparently didn't make any important difference in human nature.
Orson Scott CardYouโre not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
Orson Scott CardThe best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
Orson Scott CardI think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.
Orson Scott Card