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

I did NOT have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people.

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

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

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

I am beyond logic and rationality.

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you.

Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal.

I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan

I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day.

In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.