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

My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people.

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

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

Perception is real, truth is not. I'm not fighting for money and possessions. I'm fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter the cyber age -- the Age of Transparency -- the facts and the truth will out.

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