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

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.

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.

Intuition is often conceived as a kind of inner perception, sometimes regarded as lucidity or understanding.

What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I'll stop the whole production, "Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody."

Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.

Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

loved the show as a child and felt I could not do it justice. [on turning down the role of the new Doctor Who