For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.

I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.