It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.

Mortals are odd creatures in that sense—flawed yet hopeful. One can study them through millennia and still get nowhere near full understanding of their nature.

We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that.

I think probably anyone would say, the worst and the hardest things to deal with is when people say things that aren't true. Or that are kind of true but exaggerated.

Rich white guys. That's the true minority.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.

The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.

The service of bringing light to a troubled world must never end.

Hindi naman ako mataba eh. In fact I'm so sexy that it overflows.

It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.