"You know, when I was young, my brother always used to say, "Every man has to have a code." Mine: Precision. A team is nothing but pieces you switch out until you get the job done. It's efficient. It works. But you? You're loyal to a fault. Your code is about family. And that's great in the holidays, but it makes you predictable. And in our line of work, predictable means vulnerable. And that means I can reach out and break you whenever I want."

"[last line; says grace after getting the first bite] Father, we thank you for the gathering of friends. Father, we give thanks for all the choices we made, because that's what makes us who we are. Let us forever cherish the loved ones we've lost along the way. Thank you for the little angel, the newest addition to our family. Thank you for bringin' Letty home. And most of all, thank you for fast cars."

"[to Riley] Badass and brains. Woman, you keep that up, I'm gonna be out of a job."

"Bercelio Moya - Indian Boy"

"Liam Neeson - Fielding"

"Chuck Low - Cabeza"

"Ronald Pickup - Hontar"

"Cherie Lunghi - Carlotta"

"Ray McAnally - Cardinal Altamirano"

"Aidan Quinn - Felipe Mendoza"

"Álvaro Guerrero - Jesuit"

"Rolf Gray - Young Jesuit"

"Daniel Berrigan - Sebastian"

"Alejandrino Moya - Chief's Lieutenant"

"Asuncion Ontiveros - Indian Chief"

"Sigifredo Ismare - Witch Doctor"

"With an orchestra, the Jesuits could have subdued the entire continent."

"[to Cabeza and Hontar] And you have the effrontery to tell me that this slaughter was necessary?"

"If you die with blood in your hands, Rodrigo, then you betray everything we have done! You promised your life to God! AND GOD IS LOVE!"

"We are not the members of a democracy, Father. We are the members of an order."

"If might is right, then love has no place in the world. It may be so, it may be so. But I don't have the strength to live in a world like that, Rodrigo."

"[paraphrasing 1 Corinthians 13] Though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. Love suffereth and love is kind. Love envieth not. Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. But now abideth faith, hope, love... these three. But the greatest of these is love."

"Your Holiness, a surgeon to save the body must often hack off a limb. But in truth nothing could prepare me for the beauty and the power of the limb that I had come here to sever."

"Jeremy Irons - Father Gabriel"

"Robert De Niro - Rodrigo Mendoza"

"Nature, my friends, is the most surprising spectacle man can behold. Did you know ants have herds of livestock that give them milk and sugar? That spiders invented the submarine millions of years ago? Did you know that butterflies have tongues? The tongue of a butterfly is like an elephant's trunk, but very thin and wound up like a watch spring."

"Music has the face of a woman you want to love you! Close your eyes and imagine her! Imagine her hair"