Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands….

I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lift….

Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return, the….

We read because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them,in their problems.And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we ….

We are shallow because we are mayabang, ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake know….

A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filip….

Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving..

‎Sometimes we have to lie so that we do not needlessly hurt others. The important thing is that we are honest with ourselves. That we know how to ben….

November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which preced….

Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because th….

Life is holy and it is for all of us. God's design, I cannot understand myself and I never will, but I do know that what we are experiencing now will….

When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day..

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding,….

You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves.

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it..

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japans brightest made it a ….

Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face..

In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the hou….

We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves beca….

No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have fe….

The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make….