The Doctor

"Clara sometimes asks me if I dream. 'Of course I dream,' I tell her. 'Everybody dreams.' 'But what do you dream about?' she asks. 'Same thing everybody dreams about,' I tell her. 'I dream about where I'm going.' She always laughs at that. 'But you're not going anywhere, you're just wandering about.' That's not true. Not anymore. I have a new destination. My journey is the same as yours, the same as anyone's. It's taken me so many years, so many lifetimes, but at last I know where I'm going. Where I've always been going. Home, the long way around."

"We all change. When you think about it, we are all different people, all through our lives. And that's ok, that's good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this. Not one day...I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me."

"The Doctor: So tell me, what do you think of the view? Half-Faced Man: It is beautiful. The Doctor: No it isn't. It's just far away. Everything looks too small. I prefer it down there. Everything is huge. Everything is so important. Every detail, every moment, every life clung to."

"Those people down there. They are never small to me. Don't make assumptions about how far I will go to protect them, because I've already come a very long way."

"I'm the Doctor. I've lived for over two thousand years, and not all of them were good. I've made many mistakes, and it's about time I did something about that."

"Stop laughing. Are you all simple or something?"

"Let me tell you about scared. Your heart is beating so hard, I can feel it through your hands. There's so much blood and oxygen pumping through your brain, it's like rocket fuel! Right now, you could run faster and you can fight harder and you can jump higher than you could ever in your life, and you're so alert, it's like you could slow down time. What's wrong with scared? Scared is a super power! It's your super power!"

"The deep and lovely dark. We'd never see the stars without it."

"Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones. But you still have to choose."

"I tried to talk. I want you to remember that. I tried to reach out. I tried to understand you, but I think you understand us perfectly. And I think that you just don't care! And I don't know whether you are here to invade, infiltrate, or just replace us. I don't suppose it really matters now. You are monsters! That is the role you seem determined to play, so it seems that I must play mine: The man that stops the monsters!"

"Even my incredibly long life is too short for Les Miserables."

"Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?"

"Pain is a gift. Without the capacity for pain, we can't feel the hurt we inflict."

"Fear makes companions of us all."

"As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves."

"I don't believe that man was made to be controlled by machines. Machines can make laws, but they can not preserve justice. Only human beings can do that."

"It all started out as a mild curiosity in the junkyard, and now it's turned out to be quite a great spirit of adventure."

"Our lives are important — at least to us — and as we see, so we learn... Our destiny is in the stars, so let's go and search for it."

"One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine."

"So you're my replacements. Humph. A dandy and a clown."

"I suddenly realised what the old proverb meant: "To lose is to win, and he who wins shall lose!" It was all part of Rassilon's trap to find out who wanted immortality and put him out of the way! He knew very well that immortality was a curse, NOT a blessing!"

"Well then, here we go... the long way around."

"Slower! SLOWER! Concentrate on one thing! ONE thing!"

"I'd like to see a butterfly fit into a chrysalis case after it spreads its wings."

"Life depends on change, and renewal."

"There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things that act against everything we believe in. They must be fought!"

"I am not a student of human nature. I am a professor of a far wider academy of which human nature is merely a part."

"We've done exactly as you calculated, haven't we?"

"The power cable generated an electrical field and confused their tiny metal minds. You might almost say they've had a complete metal breakdown."

"People spend all their time making nice things and then other people come along and break them."

"An unintelligent enemy is far less dangerous than an intelligent one, Jamie. Just act stupid. Do you think you can manage that?"

"We're nowhere. It's as simple as that."

"I hate computers and refuse to be bullied by them!"

"I do tend to get involved."

"Keep it confused, feed it with useless information — I wonder if I have a television set handy?"

"My dear Miss Shaw, I never report myself anywhere, particularly not forthwith."

"I reversed the polarity of the neutron flow."

"Well, I'll tell you something that should be of vital interest to you. That you, Sir, are a NITWIT!"

"Obviously the Time Lords have programmed the TARDIS always to return to Earth. It seems that I'm some sort of galactic yo-yo!"

"It's all quite simple — I am he and he is me!"

"Allow me to congratulate you, sir. You have the most totally closed mind that I've ever encountered."

"Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway."

"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting."

"A tear, Sarah Jane? No, don't cry. While there's life there's... (Dies)"

"Have a Jelly Baby."

"Shut up, K-9!"

"You may be a doctor. But I'm the Doctor. The definite article, you might say."

"There's no point being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes."

"Never cared much for the word "impregnable." Sounds a bit too much like "unsinkable.""

"Homo sapiens. What an inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million years since they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenceless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to outsit eternity. They're indomitable."