I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

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.

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.

Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.

Like language, I think any who have not acquired spirituality by a certain age are doomed to be never fluent and you are likely to mimic the one that surrounds you.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

When you have no defensiveness about what you think but rather you totally believe it, you are passionate about it.

In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. -Sonnet 73