When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.'

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

I eat death threats for breakfast!

Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody.

I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.

I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power.

Life is a consequence of our moral choices.

Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it!

The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.

Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.

What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves to the fact that what they're doing, stealing money from government, is acceptable.

We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true revelation of his word, explaining it to every heart, unfolding it in every moment.

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

We're also confident that gamers are going to love our vision of the future.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

It's crazy how we always hate the things closest to us.

I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.