They won't be required to sacrifice anything in order to belong to your assembly. A religion that is all sweetness, but no light; all form, but no su… - Orson Scott Card

Sometimes those who care for the whole community must act in a way that harms the individual. For a good man it never becomes easy and he avoids it when he can; but when people need him to be harsh, he will be harsh indeed, and he won't shrink from it, he'll do it with his own hand and let it be known what he does.

God's hand is strange to us. He cares nothing for the moment, nothing for the feeble ambitions of men and women. He sees the road that flows onward forever.

Such fools they were in Battle School, to let so few girls in. It left the boys completely helpless against a woman when they returned to Earth.