“But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.”

“You don't understand their mentality. They won't accept your resignation because they don't think you have the right to quit. They are the ones who decide how long you should stay and when you should be dispensed with. More than anything else, it was this arbitrariness that had become unbearable.”

“You blame me for this, don't you?" he says."I don't need to. You're doing a better job.”

“Forbes was highly motivated by Noynoy's words: "...Therefore in order to make this country better, you don't need grandiose platforms, all you have to do is to do your job, and do it well, rightly, and in accordance with the principled objective.”

“If there's one thing you can be sure about in this life, it's that you won't always be kissing the right person”

“Don't you ever feel that way? Like you could do a better job if you rqan the world?''Um... no. Me running the world would be kind of a nightmare.”