In the ring I can tell right away what his style is and I can adapt to it. I'm adjusting to life as a politician. It's different in training but I can stay focused on both.

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.

Charlotte looked up doubtfully, wondering why, as she got older, she seemed to be more afraid of things, not less.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

People didn't think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet owner knows more than a lot of scientists about animals.

Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

When you, awareness, are mastered by the deepest that you know the truth of, then you are no longer awareness. You are oneness aware mastering your self and your life.

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.

More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism.

When I do things with people it's not with the hopes of them coming back because that would be a selfish reason for me to do anything.

Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.