Poetry is designed to inspire love, and islam is about falling in love with the creator of the universe.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without it she only sleeps with it alone she lives.

Live according to your income.

Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.

Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.

I'm pissed at a nickel because it isn't a dime.

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

There's a Buddhist precept that the only thing you deserve is the chance to do the work, and I've been given the chance to do the work.

You've got to give people a fair chance of saying what they believe, and then you've got to decide, "Do you believe 'em?"

This country [the Philippines] is like a pyramid, like a tower. It is made up of millions of stones... . And the foundation stone of this pyramid is the common man.