I can say for the first time that I am not afraid, and while this is a feeling that can undoubtedly change with time, I feel cradled by this universe and the immense love that comes from it.

And seemingly as winter has become spring, confusion has become insight.

You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.

...You know what I mean?

Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

I think that's the most important thing: when life kind of screws you over a little bit, you've got to learn from that experience.

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.

You're gonna get thrown curve balls left and right, and that's just the way it goes.

This is to the world and how god damn beautiful it is.

Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino

Now is that last time you'll see today, so make it memorable.

A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.

My accent always works with girls. They like it, I have no idea why.

I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.

Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.

A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.

A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.

Mandela has played a crucial part in history. He's done some extraordinary things, not only for his country but also for the whole world.