I like to enjoy foods that keep my energy levels stable. Otherwise I'd likely crash at some point during the day.

I always knew that transgenders are allowed to join Miss Universe and win Miss Universe. So they're welcome to join.

We live in a world where adolescents and young people, especially from key populations, are still left behind. We cannot fail to address their needs.

We have miles to go to end AIDS in the Philippines and we need to equip young people with the right information and enable them to access services that are safe and responsive to their needs.

I hope my story could become an inspiration of determination, discipline, faith and hardwork.

While I wasn't able to do my first walk' as Miss Universe during my pageant, at least I'll be able to do my final walk - and it will happen in the Philippines no less.

When it comes to trying to do good, I will keep going, even when I'm no longer Miss Universe.

I'll continue doing what I do, whether in the Philippines, here in the U.S., or elsewhere.

For fashion and beauty, I don't think you have to overthink it.

Sometimes we think that the more expensive brands will be more effective. Sometimes if you stick to the basics, that's what really matters. That's what I do anyway.

I'm a conservative businesswoman in a way because I try not to invest too much to the point that if things go bad, I'd lose a lot.

I'm a risk-taker because I don't have a lot of experience in putting up a business before - I didn't really learn about this in school - but I still choose to do it, especially since I'm now getting good advice from people around me.

It's a dream role for me to play a superhero.

If you're going to give me the role of Darna, I'll accept it. I will work hard, I will train, I will attend workshops. I will give all my strength. But, of course, it's ABS-CBN's decision in the end to see who is the perfect fit to play the role.

Everyday, we all struggle to be comfortable with our imperfections.

Let me just make a stand that our friends and family in the LGBTQIA-plus community have the right to take up space in our society.

You can only do Miss Universe once, so take as many pictures as you can, enjoy, and have fun.

I learned that you should never be afraid to speak your mind especially when you know it's right.

I've been my family's breadwinner since I was 11.

I love living in a condo because I don't have worries, relax ka lang and everything is being taken care of.

Just having plants around helps with your mood. You feel relaxed.

I prepared myself for Miss Universe for a very long time, for years, and I would always try to imagine what it would be like to introduce myself as Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Universe.

I've been getting Obagi prior to my being an endorser because my dermatologist prescribes the brand and I always like it, knowing Obagi is a well-trusted name, of quality and is safe to use.

I'm more Filipino than I am German. I guess I shouldn't be ashamed to say that.

Tuna pie has been a comfort food for me. Back in high school, when I was still studying at ABS-CBN's Distance Learning Center, I remember buying it every day from the Jollibee kiosk in our building.

Being sweet is something that's already given. As a beauty queen, you know that you should be relatable to people, that you should be authentic - and that makes you sweet. But you should also have that 'it' factor, and the confidence that will make you spicy.

I want to feel confident and good about myself.

I want to see how far I can go with my body. I always tell myself that I will be fit, but it never happens.

Did you ever see the customers in health-food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

about these magical people with no jobs who live in apartments.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not there.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

George Booth and I are both funny, and from afar, without meeting, admired each other's work.

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.