Jean-Luc Picard

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

— Jean-Luc Picard

Part of having feelings is learning to integrate them into your life, Data, ...learning to live with them. No matter what the circumstances ... Sometimes it takes courage to try, Data. Courage can be an emotion too.

— Jean-Luc Picard

Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal.

— Jean-Luc Picard

Reports of my assimilation are greatly exaggerated.

— Jean-Luc Picard

The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!

— Jean-Luc Picard

If there is one ideal that the Federation holds most dear, it is that all men, all races can be united.

— Jean-Luc Picard

If your issues are with me, then deal with me. This has nothing to do with my ship, nothing to do with the Federation!

— Jean-Luc Picard

Buried deep within you, beneath all the years of pain and anger, there is something that has never been nurtured: the potential to make yourself a better man. And that is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are. Oh, yes — I know you. There was a time you looked at the stars and dreamed of what might be.

— Jean-Luc Picard

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before!

— Jean-Luc Picard

If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are.

— Jean-Luc Picard

There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions.

— Jean-Luc Picard

Things are only impossible until they're not!

— Jean-Luc Picard

The Prime Directive is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy ... and a very correct one. History has proven again and again that whenever mankind interferes with a less developed civilization, no matter how well intentioned that interference may be, the results are invariably disastrous.

— Jean-Luc Picard

You say you are true evil? Shall I tell you what true evil is? It is to submit to you. It is when we surrender our freedom, our dignity instead of defying you.

— Jean-Luc Picard

No being is so important that he can usurp the rights of another.

— Jean-Luc Picard

Your Honour, the courtroom is a crucible. In it we burn away irrelevancies until we are left with a pure product, the truth for all time.

— Jean-Luc Picard

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.

— Jean-Luc Picard

A matter of internal security.' The age-old cry of the oppressor.

— Jean-Luc Picard

Being first at any cost is not always the point.

— Jean-Luc Picard

Let's make sure history never forgets the name ... Enterprise.

— Jean-Luc Picard

There are times, sir, when men of good conscience cannot blindly follow orders. You acknowledge their sentience, but ignore their personal liberties and freedom. Order a man to turn his child over to the state? Not while I'm his captain.

— Jean-Luc Picard

You may test that assumption at your convenience.

— Jean-Luc Picard

Imprisonment is an injury, regardless of how you justify it.

— Jean-Luc Picard

I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile.

— Jean-Luc Picard

You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy. "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged.

— Jean-Luc Picard

The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think.

— Jean-Luc Picard

I'd be delighted to offer any advice I have on understanding women. When I have some, I'll let you know.

— Jean-Luc Picard

Seize the time... Live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.

— Jean-Luc Picard

There are four lights!

— Jean-Luc Picard

No, I am not dead. Because I refuse to believe the afterlife is run by you. The universe is not so badly designed!

— Jean-Luc Picard

There is a way out of every box, a solution to every puzzle; it's just a matter of finding it.

— Jean-Luc Picard

We are what we are, and we're doing the best we can. It is not for you to set the standards by which we should be judged!

— Jean-Luc Picard

So, five-card stud, nothing wild. And the sky's the limit.

— Jean-Luc Picard

Seize the time... Live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.

— Jean-Luc Picard