The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever.

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

There are many things we do not want in this world. Let us not just mourn them; let us change them

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them.

Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.

Once a champion, always a champion.

To succeed in life you need five things – a burning desire, a willingness to do whatever it takes, wisdom, incredible effort, and a commitment to never-ending improvement.

Smartass Disciple: My master, please show me how to be a wise man!Master of Stupidity: I can't. But I can show you how to do something wisely.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.

I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a lot of different things!

I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.

The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?