Responsibility

“I felt compelled to make a film for the people I’d met behind bars. I owed them that film.”

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

“You make a decision when you get married pero araw-araw pala kailangang mag-desisyon ka.”

“I just try to lead by example, man.”

“Love cannot stop at the epiphany of the encounter, but also has to become a construction.”

“From henceforth we are masters of our destiny, and the welfare of this beloved land is our own responsibility.”

“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”

“You write your life story by the choices you make.”

“When we do well, it gives us the means to do good. Actions speak louder than words!”

“If people believe that bad behavior will cost them nothing, they would behave worse.”

“și-au împlinit datoriile cu sfințenie, dar și cu neadormită priveghere”

“We were becoming so used to the morbidity around us. So when the abduction of those girls happened, I was determined not to allow my society to move on.”

“The buck stops with me.”

“We have no right to compromise the truth he intrusted to us, either to think lightly of it or to withhold the message he has given us for humanity.”

“Clearance off the line – every time! It’s my job to stop the ball from going in the net.”

“The real question was how could I risk not sharing this with her?”

“Why independence, if the slaves of to-day will be the tyrants of to-morrow?”

“Ingkon sai manat asa sai tongtong tiang di tonga.”