I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

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.

You can't be sad when Daisy is around, she won't let you.

Compassion is often mistaken for weakness, when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it.

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

I hope to be a good role model for my daughters.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.