"nais mong ang baya'y magising; ayaw mong ikaw ay gisingin... anong klaseng dignidad, anong klaseng katarungan, anong uring prinsipyo't dangal? anong klaseng pag-unlad, anong klaseng kalayaan, anong uri, anong uri, rizal?"

~ in gary granada's musicale "sino ka ba, jose rizal?" (transcribed from my memories of 1996)

sana ngayong pasko, at araw-araw, magpakailanman, "mas christ".

pag-ibig, hindi pagkahinabang; pagkabukas-palad, hindi kasakiman; hustisya, hindi pagkawalang-damdamin; kapayapaan, hindi karahasan; pag-asa, hindi takot.

at sana, umpisa ngayon, hindi bukas o sa makalawa, makita at masabi mo sa bawat isa ng kapwa mo: "christ yan o".

pasko. sa puso't isip. magpakailanman.

"great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed."

~ vincent van gogh

realization of the day: the wwe (world wrestling entertainment) is the modern-day circus; and the wrestlers are part of the menagerie.

"ability is of little account without opportunity."

~ napoleon bonaparte

"you can adopt the attitude there is nothing you can do, or you can see the challenge as your call to action."

~ catherine pulsifer

"it doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes."

~ linda evans

"dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become."

~ james allen

"accept responsibility for your life. know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

~ les brown

"it takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."

~ erma bombeck

"you cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

~ ralph waldo emerson

"a man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isn't."

~ don williams, jr

foster's law: "the only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders."

"early in life i had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. i chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

~ frank lloyd wright

"i am a member of a team, and i rely on the team, i defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion."

~ mia hamm

"when we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality."

~ friedensreich hundertwasser