No true friendship takes account of credit and debt. It gives freely, without thought of compensation or reward.

If the day ever comes that it (Deep Space Nine) isn't safe for kids to run around this station we all need to pack up and go home.

If I didn't work on the assumption that people were mostly telling me the truth, I think I'd go mad... And I'd rather be mistaken about others than mistrustful of them.

One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that it will contribute to a greater good.

We are our own worst enemy.

There are always two sides to a story.

Being in love, I find myself smiling for no reason at all...

It’s like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

As long as I can make that audience one thing, one unit, then I'm okay with it. But, sometimes, the bigger the audience, the weirder it gets.

The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]

Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.