I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.

Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender.

I swear to God I was freaked out about the Aswang when I was a kid in the Philippines.