You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.

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.

If ambition doesn't hurt you you haven't got it.

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating."

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

I've been doin' drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications - and by forgetting to put the lid back down.

I know my lies are always wishes.

In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.

Who knew, when you were watching the Verizon ad and the guy said, 'Can you hear me now,' that was really just a mic check for the Obama administration.

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.