It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.

I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.

Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?

In having compassion for another's Spiritual blindness, I can learn to Forgive myself.

Convictions are the mainsprings of action the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place.

As for being on Twitter, I enjoy it tremendously, and it is wonderfully overwhelming to see people not just digging it and liking it.

The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.

But we were talking about me and my problems." Sophronia looked Monique up and down gravely. "I don't think we're going to solve those in the space of one carriage ride.

Actions are destiny's pen.

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.

Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is better than Young Avengers. Better than Phonogram. Better than Watchmen. Better than The Bible.

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.