How could you tell, when utter honesty and cynical manipulation would each account completely for the things she said and did? - Orson Scott Card

Gods are like that. It isn't enough for them to run everything. They want to be famous, too.

Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will — will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.