When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

To read is to truly escape from oneself

the difference between secret andlie is similar to the difference of iceand water.when you heat ice it becomes water.and when you force anyone toreveal there secrets it comes in aform of lie.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom.

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.

You must let life flow naturally, for life’s secret is patience; you must stop pushing for change and allow things to unfold.

Money is the by-product, it is not the purpose.

In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil

All I know is that I'm proud to be Filipino.

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.