...the mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in our consciousness.

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.

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.

Beard is like Niqab, that covers cheeks

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I'd be it's really, you know, still fascinating for me.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.

Is this thing safe?" "Safe as life," Gansey replied.

Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone?

If you think your job requires you to endanger people, get another job.

- DON’T WORRY, IT WON’T BE FOREVER. - Good. - IT MAY SEEM LIKE FOREVER.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.