Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

You will need to verify your identity with a sacrifice.""Didn't you ever hear of retina scans? Maybe fingerprints? Something less invasive?

An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.

If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you’ll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.

Flirting is conversational chemistry.

Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.

I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans.

Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful.

My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am'

From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.