I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.

How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

Always trust in proven survivors.

The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful

Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them.

I Just Wanted To Have Fun.Being In Love Wasn't My Idea.

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.

Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.

I would just love once to be called sexy. Just because it would make me something other than cute.

In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country ... In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this.

All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.

I never killed a guy who didn't deserve it.

Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

Commit to becoming breathtakingly great in all you do. And that's what you'll become.

I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.