"Filipinos are very sentimental. They like to remember the good times, not the bad times."

"I have always been a fighter. I will never give up."

"Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes."

"I am a survivor. I have survived everything."

"Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty."