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

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

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.