Freedom is not just declared it is exercised.

I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever.

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

There are many things we do not want in this world. Let us not just mourn them; let us change them

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them.

Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.

Once a champion, always a champion.

Love by its very nature is extravagant, but we poor human beings, so caught up in fear and worry, limit the very love we were created to bring into the world.

I don't talk about the mountain I talk to the mountain because my boss broke down the China wall of those days (JERICHO) with mere word....

The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

A watermelon that breaks open by itself tastes better than one cut with a knife.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.

Lie to me, I promise to believe. Lie to me, but please don't leave.

The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.