I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans.

I would rather have a country run like hell by Filipinos than a country run like heaven by the Americans, because however a bad Filipino government might be, we can always change it.

I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide, lighting and the storm, confident of its strength.

My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.

The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

I absolutely insist that all my boys are in bed before breakfast

We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.

Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors.

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.

Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.