I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.

Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronge

The worst thing about being unhappy is not being strong enough to leave the situation.

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

The Coastal Plain of Alaska has great potential for energy development. Americans have paid record-high prices for oil and gas in the year 2005.

You can't lay down laws for what people think and hope.

If there’s a place for it in your heart, there’s a place for it in your home.

Okay, so let's run faster.

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you