It (i. e., advertising) was like horoscopes—enough blind stabs and som — Orson Scott Card

"How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?"

"He exuded confidence without ever looking as if he wanted to make sure everyone else knew how confident he was."

"The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. The choices they made were real. They mattered."

"He understood the tone of voice instinctively, as he always had; it was his greatest gift, to know emotions even better than the person feeling them."

"He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more."

"A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it."