Trust requires time and experience. — Jean-Luc Picard

"Brinksmanship is a dangerous game."

"We leave behind a being of extraordinary power and conscience. I am not certain if he should be praised or condemned. Only that he should be left alone."

"The knowledge and experience of the human Picard is part of us now. It has prepared us for all possible courses of action. Your resistance is hopeless... Number One."

"Every choice we make allows us to manipulate the future. Do I ask Adrienne or Suzanne to the spring dance? Do I take my holiday on Corsica or on Risa? A persons life, their future, hinges on each of a thousand choices. Living is making choices. Now you ask me to believe that if I make a choice other than the one found in your history books, then your past will be irrevocably altered. Well, you know, Professor, perhaps I dont give a damn about your past, because your past is my future and as far as Im concerned, it hasnt been written yet."

"You told the truth up to a point. But a lie of omission is still a lie."

"I know Hamlet. And what he might say with irony, I say with conviction. „What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!“"