Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.

The majority of men could sooner be brought to believe themselves a piece of lava in the moon than to take themselves for a self.

Having faith is like having an extra energy source. It allows you to keep moving forward when all logic tells you, you can't.

I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.

People don’t need careers. People should just exist.

A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.

Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot.