Charles de Secondat

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.