Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings.

You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves

Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving.

In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japans brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

We are shallow because we are mayabang, ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

She was benediction, a touch of faith, life itself coursing through my veins collapsed in age and turmoil, and to my fatigued and weary heart, a new and vibrant throb.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" is the only personal development book that does not mention it.

Man, don't ever be sorry you don't want to kill someone.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

I ain't never been nothin but a winner.

Crowds are influenced mainly by images produced by the judicious employment of words and formulas

The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.