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

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

I get my fingers in all our pies. Before you know it, your little fingers including all your toes are in all the pies.

I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star. Other presidents' wives have gone to the barrios wearing house dresses and slippers. That's not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example.

I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

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