Babylon 5

Franklin: If you're not always careful you can lose yourself in the world. You're too busy with things and not busy enough with yourself. Spend your days and nights living someone else's agendas, fighting someone else's battles, and you're doing the work you're supposed to be doing, but everyday there's less and less of you in it all. Till one day, you come to a fork in the road, and because you're distracted, you're not thinking, you lose yourself. You go right, and the rest of you, the really important part of you, goes left. You don't even know you've done it till you realize, you finally realize, that you don't have any idea who you are when you're not doing all those things. Garibaldi: Steven, you don't really believe there are two of you, do you?

Cailyn: I have a theory that light passes through us, refracting our soul, mind and body like a rainbow. And if I get the glass at the right angle, I can see through to someone's soul. Franklin: What do you see? Cailyn: Just pieces. Hasn't worked yet. Franklin: Maybe it worked better than you think it did.

Sheridan: As you know, Mr Garibaldi recently uncovered information which seems to indicate the Shadows have a weakness. Their ships are based on organic technology which may be vulnerable to telepathic interference. In theory, a telepath might be able to jam their central operating system, leaving them vulnerable to attack. G'Kar: I noticed the number of conditional phrases in that. “Seems to indicate a weakness”, “May be vulnerable”, “In theory”...

Lennier: We've got four...repeat...four Shadow vessels!
Sheridan: They don't want us to get out of here alive with what we know. Are you sure we can't jump?
Lennier: Positive.
Sheridan: Then we have a problem.
Lennier: Yes, sir.
Sheridan: Run for it!

Garibaldi: (after arguing with G'Kar as to why the Narn cruiser didn't come to Sheridan aid when he needed them) You don't follow an order because you know for sure it's gonna work out! You do as you're told because your CO has the moral authority to say "You may not come back", but the cause is just, and fair, and necessary. THAT'S why Sheridan's out there, and damn it, that's where that cruiser should be too! It's not Na'Kal's decision, G'Kar. He doesn't see the big picture. You do. So in my book...
(Garibaldi picks up the "Book of G'Quon" and shoves it into G'Kar's grasp)
Garibaldi continues: ...and YOUR book, that makes it YOUR responsibility! Deal with it!

Garibaldi: Why is everything around here a long story? Why isn't anything ever a short story? A paragraph? Look, just give me the short version, okay?
Dr. Franklin: All right. Walkabout.
Garibaldi: That's it?!
Dr. Franklin: Hey, it's that or the long version. So, you know, you take your pick.

(After Londo realizes a Narn Heavy Cruiser is stationed outside Babylon 5)
Londo: And what guarantees will you give me that the cruiser will not open fire on a Centauri vessel as it approaches Babylon 5, hmmm?!
Garibaldi: It's the same guarantee I gave when I said none of the other Narns would break into your quarters in the middle of the night and slit your throat.
Londo: Mr. Garibaldi, you have never given me that promise.
Garibaldi: You're right. Sleep tight.

[Looks at a meatball] Na'Kal : Breen [takes a bite] Na'Kal : You've managed to import Breen from Homeworld. How? G'Kar : It, eh, isn't actually Breen. Na'Kal : The smell, the taste? G'Kar : It's an Earth food. They are called "Swedish Meatballs." It's a strange thing, but every sentient race has a version of these Swedish Meatballs. I suspect it is one of those great universal mysteries which will either never be explained or it would drive you mad if you ever learn the truth.