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

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

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!

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.

More than life, I value vindication. When you are at peace with the truth and you know that you are on the side of the right and God is on your side, you are not afraid of anything, including jail.

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

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