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.

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.

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.

The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

Jesus' love for you far outweighs your expectations of Him.

One of the first rules the Emperor had drummed into her [Mara Jade] so long ago was to blend in as best she could with her surroundings

Never settle in any circle that is not fully committed to forever walk in the direction of endless opportunities and possibilities.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.

If you want to win some, you have to be winsome - be nice, be friendly and then appropriately apply the gospel.

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.

I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.

The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.