I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

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.

...for she soars with the wildest hyperbole when not tagging after the most pedestrian dictum.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

I've been an amature inventor for a long time.

When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.

It's amazing. Being clearheaded for a show, for starters. Not being reflux-y because of the amount of beer you've drunk.

If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.

Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.

Make hiring a top priority.

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Adversity deprives us of our judgment.