Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody.

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

I eat death threats for breakfast!

When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.'

I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.

I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power.

Life is a consequence of our moral choices.

Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it!

The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.

Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.

What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves to the fact that what they're doing, stealing money from government, is acceptable.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Thinking is movement confined to the brain

I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I've enjoyed watching.

The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.

Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.

It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.