- Riviere: You're late.
- Fabien: Sorry, it won't happen again.
- Riviere: Why did you turn back on your last flight? Were you afraid? Night flights are a matter of life and death for this company. We get ahead of the steamships and trains during the day, but if our pilots turn round at night because of a little turbulence...
- Fabien: Shouldn't I get going, Sir?
- Riviere: Yes. But I'm still docking you.
- Riviere: I believe that human life is priceless. And yet my pilots and I believe there is something more valuable, more important, in our lives. What that something is, I don't know. The future, perhaps.
- Riviere: We do not ask to be eternal. All we ask is that the objects we live by, do not lose their meaning.