- Ikal - Teenage: Running, my friend... running fast is what we're good at. Arai is the one who always manages to get me running through crisis after crisis in my life.
- Julian Balia: And remember, what's most important is not how big you dream, but how big you are for your dreams.
- Pak Mustar: Balia, I know you're young. You have high spirits. But I'm worried your methods give them too high of hopes. Those kids will become unrealistic. They will have no discipline. They'll become quitters !
- Ikal - Adult: Have you ever thought, my friend... that sometimes, wealth is a curse ? That's what I often think about this earth, about this nation, and about my hometown. All that was ours, we never really enjoyed. We were here as spectators, or as laboring coolies. Even the mistakes of those who dug up our land, we were the ones who had to pay for it.