We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino.

Its never right to fight terror with terror.

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other.

I'm not worried. I'm in control.

I follow my father's philosphy; 'Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.'

Stories are just lies made to look like truth.

Eons ago, the creative genius of God foresaw that it would take the shattered pieces of my ‘yesterday’ to construct the sturdy portal to my ‘tomorrow.

Words can express true feelings, true emotions and wisdom. It is up to you to use them wisely... Choose your words carefully and express the peacefully!

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

It made me high. It really did.

I didn’t know what I was going to say, a feeling that was compounded when the line clicked open and Trent’s very muzzy voice murmured, “Rachel? Mmm, hi.

First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.