When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

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

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

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

If the shoe fits, buy it.

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.