"You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control."

“To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones...”

“Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.”

“You know the most important thing the Americans did for Iraq apart from liberating the country from Saddam was helping Iraq reduce its debt. The United States worked very hard to reduce 80 percent of Iraqi debt.”

“I look at Colin Meads and see a great big sheep farmer who carried the ball in his hands as though it was an orange pip.”

“I was very privileged and really blessed with so many material and spiritual gifts that I should give back, ... I should do something for my people, but ... it's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.”

Source : "Then & Now: Corazon Aquino", www.cnn.com. September 19, 2005.

“there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.”

“Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.”

“Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?”