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

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.

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

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.

Stop giving your life away to other people.

The "paranormal" is what we call a phenomenon when examined through the narrow lens of what we consider "normal." You have to transcend the senses to understand them.

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.

Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.

Fortunately for us, life's highway has as many on ramps as it does off ramps.

Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what it wanted to be in the editing room.

I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.