Psyche Roxas-Mendoza Quotes

The most difficult lesson is not being bitter—that balancing you need to do so you don't become bitter, even as you cease being gullible.

Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am just as cowardly as you. And do not tell me it is enough to speak the truth; that it is bravery enough. Every mountain leveled to the ground, every forest burned, every man, woman, and child who lost their shanties to arsonist fires were defended to the heavens—with words.

In the end, class will out. So much talk about helping the poor. It's all words and class interest— in the end.

Guess life is really a road marked by crossroads. It's not the long and winding stretches that will hurt you the most. It's the crossroads. You make a bad choice and it's a tumble and a rumble before you get back on your feet again. But you'll get back on your feet. You'll find yourself. And then you'll be off to your next adventure (crossroads, I mean). In my case, I always had a safety net—my faith in God. But then, I'm more like the millions of simple folk who travel this world.

Memory is all that matters in the end

The best dreams are the dreams we made come true for the world.

It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.

A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections.

Hate is a very strong, pure emotion to be wasted on people you don't care about.

You will always be special to someone. Unless you grow so old, everyone you knew went ahead

To forgive, you must love the world and everything in it. Anything less is hypocrisy.

Only two things in man’s consciousness defy discussion: faith and one’s marriage.

I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.

Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.

We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.