Honore de Balzac

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.