It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

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

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

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

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

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