Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.

We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world.

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

We read the future by the past.

Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.

The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world.

The gift of your time and attention is love in action.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

He who has the fastest cart never has a bad lie.

If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.

I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers

We are helping our Somali brothers get rid of these narrow-minded attackers. The Somali people do not support the extremists, they are on the side of our soldiers.