Decius:

Be careful what you get good at.

Joan Didion:

People with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things.

Attributed to Abraham Lincoln:

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Ed Tom Bell:

You can say it's my job to fight it but I don't know what it is anymore.

More than that, I don't want to know. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He would have to say, okay, I'll be part of this world.

From "The Road":

We're going to be okay, aren't we Papa?
Yes. We are.
And nothing bad is going to happen to us.
That's right.
Because we're carrying the fire.
Yes. Because we're carrying the fire.

True Detectives:

Rustin Cohle: I can't say the job made me this way. More like me being this way made me right for the job. I used to think about it more, but you reach a certain age you know who you are.

Martin Hart: Do you wonder ever if you're a bad man?

Rustin Cohle: No. I don't wonder, Marty. The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door.