Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Obedience is an act of faith disobedience is the result of unbelief.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave

I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense.

I would rather have a country run like hell by Filipinos than a country run like heaven by the Americans, because however a bad Filipino government might be, we can always change it.

I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and making toy airplanes and a whole model of the World's Fair in 1939 out of wax.

I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I’m a huge fan of punctuation.