In the harshest possible terms, I condemn political killings.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino.

Its never right to fight terror with terror.

We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other.

I'm not worried. I'm in control.

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

Communication land lines are going to be around for a long time, the internet runs on them, as do the wireless cell phone towers.

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just let's you get on with it.

I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above — above the world, he's sort of God.

I don't have any desire to ever act again full time.

I have really great, great parents, and they were very supportive of me.

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.

I want to show little girls that the possibilities are endless. That's my goal - to not only do it for myself, but to show them I can do whatever I put my mind to.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.