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

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.

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.

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

Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes.

Keep questioning! With time, you will find answers to your questions.

I was always an odd child, though I had no idea what odd was, really.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.

Confidence is key. Always. Even when we might have messed up.

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers.

The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me.

It's been said that every new beginning in some other beginning's end.