I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass.

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

Why should people be afraid that we use a few small pellets of uranium at the nuclear power plant in Bataan? Don't they know that we're surrounded by uranium? We have the world's fourth largest deposits of uranium. Yes, we're all radioactive -- must be the reason why we have so many faith healers!

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

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.