Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum.

You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was optimum efficiency, no matter how much time and effort it took.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

I really want the pope to come into the pulpit and tell Filipinos to their faces what's wrong with them, because we refuse to listen to ourselves.

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes -- which is what I always try to do in every movie -- then I feel like I'm doing my job.

I was playing with pencils while the other girls were playing with dolls.

You've gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.