Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life.

Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.

Fate, no doubt, had a hand in it.

The vision one holds of one's life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality.

You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.

The price one pays for having a kind man at one’s elbow.

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

We're right next to Mile High Stadium. I'm no rocket scientist, but...uh...(smile).

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

I don't trust the Bee Gee's because there's no way they could always be happy.

[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.

Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.

It don't matter as long as he can count up to 10