To be alive is a responsibility, as well as a right.
Hope and the odds make poor bedfellows.
We have powerful tools: openness, optimism, and the spirit of curiosity. All they have is secrecy and fear. And fear is the great destroyer.[to Rios]
To say you have no choice is a failure of imagination.
The past is written, but the future is left for us to write.
Peace, love, friendship. These are precious, because we know they cannot endure.
Fear is an incompetent teacher.
Anyone who treats me like a dying man will run the risk of pissing me off. Is that clear?
A butterfly that lives forever is really not a butterfly at all.
You might want to point that thing at my head. My heart is solid duritanium.
You have a past. You have a story, just waiting to be claimed.[to Soji]
There’s a difference between killing an attacking enemy and watching a wounded one die.