I love" is a door girls slam in their fathers' faces.

The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.

Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.

The point is not how we use a tool, but how it uses us.

Love should have no alternatives; love should be the sole reason for loving; love should spring of itself.

If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself.

Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or just resign yourself to it.

When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil?

...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...

...and that there were many things grown-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...

[W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.

I listen closely to her breathing getting slower, deeper until her hand settles over my heart, only beating for her. — Duke

How could he maintain the apology in his eyes without getting carried away by her cherubic innocence?

I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

I feel like every single person has guardian angels.

The duration of love in a being always depends upon the loved one. I create an emotion in you, as you create one in me. You do not create it in yourself.

I have the privilege of working on the issues that I choose and the issues that I feel most passionate about. It's been a privilege.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.