Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.

Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life.

Fate, no doubt, had a hand in it.

The vision one holds of one's life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality.

Nature is bent on new beginningand death has not a chance of winning...

We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence.

When you're young and dating someone, just play it safe and don't try so hard.

Play against the Game, not your opponent.

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired.

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.