Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.

Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence.

If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that person should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul.

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Let go the things of which you are in doubt for the things in which there is no doubt.

O Allah! Pardon my sins. Yes, I come.

Flowers feed the soul.

Pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries.

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is evil.

Armed with positive thoughts, it becomes easier to focus on your goals, while the opposite also holds true.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

If you're Filipino, you're the beaner of the Asian community 'cause you're just like us. You're indigenous people that got banged by some Spaniards. That's why you have names like Kwan Ping Del Toro.

When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.

It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows.

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty.

Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

Self-control is only courage under another form.

I don't think we die. I think our bodies leave, but we can never die. That which is never born, can never die. And that which never changes, can never die.