There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart." -George to Alanna

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

You’re really a good girl, poor you.

Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.

We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause.

The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.