I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive... not really rob. It's done with a smile.

The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

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

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

If the shoe fits, buy it.

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.