President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.

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.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

Another word for corruption is injustice.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.

Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

Look at the violence in Pakistan and the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan: the more troops we put in the more violent Pakistan becomes.

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange