Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity..

I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or a cheap politician making a pretty speech? This is not….

When you love someone, that love has no limit, no measure, because you know in your deepest being that when that love demands sacrifice, you will giv….

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….

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

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,….

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..

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….

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

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….

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….

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….

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….

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.

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….

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

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….

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….

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….

‎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….