I am not an icon of democracy. You are all, collectively, the icon of democracy.

It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.

I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.