Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it!

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

I eat death threats for breakfast!

Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody.

When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.'

I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.

I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power.

Life is a consequence of our moral choices.

The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.

Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.

What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves to the fact that what they're doing, stealing money from government, is acceptable.

Not doing harder than doing.

Desires and wishes don’t lead to success. Plans and efforts do. Create a vision, chalk out an action plan, put in your best efforts and give yourself a headstart in achieving your dreams.

For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.

I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

The State Department said the countries that are most stealing our best ideas also are our best allies.

Dogs are too much to handle. I don't need anything in my house that's needier than me.