- Shelly Marie Tambo: [after Maggie has finished reading a sonnet written by Shakespeare] Boy, she sure can write.
- Frank O'Connell: It's funny. You always think your kids will reach an age when you'll stop worrying about them, but they never do.
- Frank O'Connell: Makes me feel better knowing that Maggie has someone up here she can count on.
- Maurice J. Minnifield: You know, death's a funny thing.
- Maurice J. Minnifield: It always blindsides you. It always sneaks up on you when you're not looking.
- Maurice J. Minnifield: A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business.
- Maurice J. Minnifield: He should live each day as if it was a preflight check.
- Maurice J. Minnifield: He should ask each morning, "Am I prepared for liftoff?"
- Maurice J. Minnifield: Am I prepared?
- Chris Stevens: The fact that we don't know this man isn't important really, 'cause his experience is our experience, and his fate up here is our fate.
- Chris Stevens: "Vanitas vanitatum, vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas.", Says the preacher. "All is vanity."
- Chris Stevens: I think that's a pretty good epitaph for all of us.
- Chris Stevens: When we're stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our fame and family, friends, we all face death alone.
- Chris Stevens: But it's that solitude in death that's our common bond in life.
- Chris Stevens: I know it's ironic, but that's just the way things are.
- Chris Stevens: "Vanitas vanitatum, e omnia vanitas."
- Chris Stevens: "Only when we understand all is vanity, only then it isn't. "