“We don't bolt, Ensign ... We advance cautiously to the front and quickly to the rear.”

“If we survive this, I'm going to have a very serious talk with the techs back home about what constitutes "need to know.”

“Warriors are never appreciated in peacetime except by those they saved during the war.”

“The main difference between a fighter pilot and God is that God doesn't think he was a fighter pilot.”

“... they couldn't do it the easy way, so they cut through the problem and made another option.”

“People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!”

“Even though we don't admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world today, within the bard's lyrics, or on the pages in the Library”