I learned to love the feel of good words.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Happiness is heaven in human heart.

When you find the way to empower others, you will find that you are a great leader.

Power has a social function.

I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Benny was awake again. Happened every morning.

As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts.

No matter at what speed I move forward, I am never satisfied.

God hid the whole world in thy heart.