My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

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.

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

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

I do not have 3,000 pairs of shoes, I have 1,060.