Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.

I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.

The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.

I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Pictorial is something that I am not used to. You have to pose, smile, bend your arm, straighten up, look to the left.

I am loving. I am forgiving.I am at peace.

Gold is cold, and men who possess much of it are infected with its chill.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness.

If you should ever acknowledge my existence, I plan to snub you.

We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe