More quotes by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf."
"If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault."
"Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be."
"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."
"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."