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.

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

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!

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

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

I do not have 3,000 pairs of shoes, I have 1,060.

The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.