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.

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.

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

I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

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

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