Once a champion, always a champion.

I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever.

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

There are many things we do not want in this world. Let us not just mourn them; let us change them

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them.

Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.

It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die.

Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution.

There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.

If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?

When I really treat myself, I go to incredible Leonor Greyl in Paris for a head massage.

A faith that moves mountains is a faith that expands horizons, it does not bring us into a smaller world full of easy answers, but into a larger one where there is room for wonder.

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me.

Don't promise when you're happy, Don't reply when you're angry, and don't decide when you're sad.