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

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.

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.

I follow my father's philosphy; 'Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.'

Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

Maybe some people thought I was 'safe' so they didn't really bothered to vote for me at all.

One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.

When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.

Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned to bleed to death.

He loves little who loves by rule.

I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.

I am the showstopper. The main event. The Icon that can still go.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.