Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are.

Don’t die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.

Memory is all that matters in the end

Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am just as cowardly as you. And do not tell me it is enough...

It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.

27.So often, we go through our battles in private. As it was with me and with many of the women in my generation. We were taught and reared and molded to keep that stiff upper...

I’ve always wondered why women are expected to deny their true age. Why? To be a woman of 50 and up is a badge of triumph—a hard-earned certificate that says you survived the shallowness, the...

Writers, when they’re good, open windows to worlds held precious and priceless by the soul. It is a sad day when they leave the earth, like having the windows shut for good. Where will the...

The time we were together, we were the best we can be for each other.

Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.

Only two things in man’s consciousness defy discussion: faith and one’s marriage.

I firmly believe that if you pray long enough, if you wish hard enough, God will grant you at least one wish in your lifetime.

Beware! Balance rules the cosmos. It is not concerned with good or bad. You can be struck by misfortune and be buried in grief if that is what it takes to restore the imbalance you...

Faith is one of only two things in mankind’s consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one’s marriage.

We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.

Jesus never wrote a book; never went outside his country. His only legacy was to never compromise the good. And it was more than enough for the world.

It is in the little moments that we live the longest. Everything else is existence.

It’s just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they’d go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.

He was a son of the revolutionary movement when he and the revolutionary movement were still pristine. It was a special time for Filipino activists—a time when a hundred flowers bloomed and a thousand thoughts...

I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.

The world is old and full of lessons. We will not lack for examples. We only have to look around carefully, earnestly, so we can learn and realize that success, to be genuine, must not...

Do you feel it? It’s a heightening of the senses, the kind that immobilizes a cat crossing the street, transfixed by the blinding headlights of a speeding car. You know you have to head for...

You can change your life or not change it. It really doesn’t matter in the end.Life as humans live it is too fleeting, too incidental, too minisculefor the universe to keep forever.So just do good...

I once stood on a road and found I had no friends. And I was glad. Better to have no friends than to have people claim they were your friends when they were not. It...

The most difficult lesson is not being bitter—that balancing you need to do so you don’t become bitter, even as you cease being gullible.

Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me: If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature’s simple treasures, life and living need not be so...

There are places I cannot visit. Places of unbearable sadness, grief, mourning. They say places are made by people. I say places are defined by the memories they conjure—the lunge of a curse, a shared...

Think about it: If you have saved just enough to have your own house, your own car, a modicum of income to pay for food, clothes, and a few conveniences, and your everyday responsibilities start...

Hate is a very strong, pure emotion to be wasted on people you don’t care about.

Kindness is fate’s currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked.

You will always be special to someone. Unless you grow so old, everyone you knew went ahead