The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.

There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure.

Popularity is like a girl in class that you can't ignore. She give you eyes when no one looks then turns to her friends and laughs some more.

Society gets by from the help of its citizens.

I guess what's most important is that we chose to live with our hearts open and to let our experiences show us the way towards our brightest days.

Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's.

What were we, but kids with apartments and jobs anyway?

Christopher was wearing a suit and adorned make-up. As long as I had known him, he never wore a suit or make-up. The look of him defenseless to his appearance saddened me.

Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free.

In times such as these, life often begs us to seek answers when in reality there are only questions available.

It’s funny how books can change you. You open up a book and one minute you are who you’ve always been, then you read some random passage and you become someone else.

Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.

Happiness is the gap between loving and longing.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

I think we are ready to know that there are going to be people who are ready to save the world, who come out when you're in trouble and make sure that you're okay.

I can't tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that's what I call a vacation.

Why don’t you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa?

I dont see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.

When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.