I eat death threats for breakfast!

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody.

When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.'

I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.

I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power.

Life is a consequence of our moral choices.

Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it!

The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.

Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.

What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves to the fact that what they're doing, stealing money from government, is acceptable.

Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell 'em.

We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone.

Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.

I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to.

There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.