What a wise person teaches is the smallest part of what they give. The totality of their life, of the way they go about it in the smallest details, is what gets transmitted.

Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.

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

When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good.