The real world doesn’t always adhere to logic. Sometimes down is up. Sometimes up is down. Sometimes when you’re lost, you’re found.
The best way to know yourself is to know others.
Starfleet doesn’t fire first.
Sometimes, the only way to find out where you fit in is to step out of the routine, because sometimes where you really belong was waiting right around the corner all along.
Sometimes the universe allows for the making of unexpected memories.
Take good care. But more importantly, take good care of those in your care.[to Michael]
Can you bury your heart? Can you hide your decency? Can you continue to pretend to be one of them? Even as, little by little, it kills the person you really are.
Battle is not a simulation. It’s blood and screams and funerals.
When the future becomes the past, the present will be unlocked.
What greater source of peace exists than our ability to love our enemy?[to Michael]
Universal law is for lackeys. Context is for kings.
There is no telling what any one of us may do where the heart is concerned.
