- Lt. Cmdr. Dexter Remmick: You don't like me very much, do you?
- Lieutenant Worf: Is it required - sir?
- Lieutenant Worf: Thinking about what you can't control only wastes energy, and creates its own enemy.
- Wesley Crusher: I thought there was nothing that could frighten a Klingon warrior.
- Lieutenant Worf: Only fools have no fear.
- Lieutenant Worf: It is very difficult for me to depend on anyone for anything - but especially for my life.
- Wesley Crusher: But on the Enterprise, you do that every day. Everyone depends on everyone else to protect them.
- Lieutenant Worf: Yes.
- Wesley Crusher: So you overcame it?
- Lieutenant Worf: No. It is still my enemy.
- [Wesley is feeling low after failing the entrance test for Starfleet Academy and, thus, the Enterprise]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The only person you're truly competing against, Wesley, is yourself.
- Wesley Crusher: Then you're not disappointed?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Wesley - you have to measure your successes and your failures within, not by anything that I or anyone else might think. But, erm... if it helps you to know this... *I* failed the first time, and you may not tell anyone!
- Mordock: [pondering over a test about dealing with other species and cultures] Zaldans have webbed fingers... Phh... I wouldn't have passed.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: They want me to take over as Commandant Starfleet Academy.
- Commander William T. Riker: Congratulations. What a wonderful choice, sir! You'll be able to shape the minds of the future leaders of Starfleet.
- [pause]
- Commander William T. Riker: You haven't decided what you're going to do?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Yes, I have, Number One. I've decided I'm going for a walk.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Remmick, you've talked to every member of this ship; I think you had enough time to find out whatever it is you're looking for.
- Lt. Cmdr. Dexter Remmick: Are you afraid, if I keep looking, I'll find that you're guilty?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The only thing I am guilty of is allowing this charade to go on so long.
- Lt. Chang: You all have an hour to prepare for your last test.
- Wesley Crusher: The psych test, sir?
- Lt. Chang: We prefer to think of it as a psychological evaluation, based on reactions to various individual problems, but, er... 'psych test' will do.
- Jake Kurland: Thank you for, for... for saving my life.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: That's my job, young man.
- [last lines]
- Captain Picard: Set course to Algeron 4, Mr. Crusher.
- Wesley Crusher: Course plotted and laid in, sir.
- Captain Picard: Then shall we continue with our mission?
- Wesley Crusher: Yes, sir.
- Captain Picard: Excellent. Mr. Crusher, engage.