“The book of Philippine history is far from finished. However, does every sentence in our country’s story need to be finished with a period?”

“For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.”

“It's a crushing right hand and that must finish it! It must finish it! Tyson cannot get up from that, surely. He will be counted out. Lennox Lewis seals his place in history forever and closes the book on Mike Tyson!”

“Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then — our friends are not able to finish their stories.”

“I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.”

“A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.”

“Today, having come far in our own historical journey, we must decide. Will we turn back, or finish well? Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage. Like Americans before us, we will show that courage and we will finish well. We will lead freedom's advance. We will compete and excel in the global economy. We will renew the defining moral commitments of this land, and so we move forward, optimistic about our country, faithful to its cause, and confident of victories to come.”

“I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.”

“A book is never finished; it's abandoned.”

“Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.”