I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino.

Its never right to fight terror with terror.

We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other.

I'm not worried. I'm in control.

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

In a Sense, we all are Time Travelers! We are Surviving each and every Active Time-Point in this Timeline.......

Shit happens. You can either stand their and complain about the smell or you can wipe your shoe and keep walking.

No one is born on Mt. Cleverest. We all have to travel up there!

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

I was this weird loner kid who got drunk by himself all the time.

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.

Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.