I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.

I come from a poor family.

Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

It's just a game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

Boxing is not for killing each other.

If you practice hard, you can win every battle.

Even in my prime, I need God in my life because without God, we're nothing.

I’ve worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

Theres 3 things you need to remember in boxing, work hard, work harder, and work hardest

I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.

My success is not about the wealth and fame. I am most concerned with my relationship to God, which is the most important.

You must first dream, without worrying about how you will fulfill the dreams. There is a divine power that will attract the needed resources for the fulfillment of your dreams.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.

Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.

Never underestimate the Pricey.

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.