Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.

The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.

The world laughs at another man's pain.

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.